Origins
Out of seasonFlorida potato prices
Shipping point FOB prices and shipment volume for Florida, USDA reports
Data through Jun 18, 2026 · source last checked Aug 28, 2026 · page revised Aug 28, 2026
Cite
- Florida
- USDA mostly / low-high range
About this data
- Source
- USDA AMS shipping point potato FOB reports (FV130) and Daily Movement (FV170)
- Series
- Potato FOB price at a benchmark variety, pack and size
- Basis
- FOB shipping point, low-high range
- Geography
- Florida
- Unit
- $/50 lb carton
- Last observation
- Jun 18, 2026
- Update frequency
- USDA reports on business days
$17.50/50 lb carton (comparison midpoint), 18% below the 2-yr median. Florida is not currently quoting shipping point prices. Smaller and seasonal potato districts quote intermittently, so a gap is normal rotation, not a data error. Last reported FOB: $15.00-20.00, red size a, 50 lb carton, Jun 18, 2026.
Florida is between windows. Last reported FOB on Jun 18, 2026, was $15.00-20.00, red size a, 50 lb carton, up 27.3% versus a year prior and 18% below the 2-year median.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year over year | $17.50/50 lb carton | $13.75/50 lb carton | +27.3% |
| vs 2-yr median | $17.50/50 lb carton | $21.35/50 lb carton | -18.0% |
Previous weeks
An earlier week
Red potatoes from Florida last quoted mostly $15.00-20.00, 50 lb carton, size A, on June 18. At the $17.50 midpoint, the price is up from $13.75 a year earlier but remains 18% below the 2-year median of $21.35. Florida is between windows and not currently quoting shipping point prices.
About Florida potato prices
Florida grows a single winter-and-spring fresh crop, red, white and yellow round potatoes, with red carrying the most volume of the three on this site, and it is one of the larger fresh-market origins outside the West's storage regions. It has never quoted a russet.
Packing splits fairly evenly between 50 lb sacks and 50 lb cartons, with 2,000 lb bulk totes and baled consumer bags behind them, so no single pack style defines a Florida quote the way cartons define Idaho's. Because Florida is a fresh crop rather than a storage one, it ships for a defined stretch of the year and then stops until the next planting, the same rotation pattern as California and the East Coast's round-potato districts, just earlier in the calendar than most of them. Florida's finish typically hands the round-potato trade off to the mid-Atlantic districts, Virginia, Delaware and North Carolina, as their own crops come in behind it. See red, white and yellow for how Florida's prices compare with the other fresh-crop origins.
Season. Florida potatoes typically ship March through May, based on where USDA movement volumes concentrate over the year. Outside that window fresh shipping point quotes thin out, which is normal crop rotation, not a data gap.