Origins
No recent coverageMaine potato prices
Shipping point FOB prices and shipment volume for Maine, USDA reports
Data through May 12, 2022 · source last checked Nov 4, 2026 · page revised Nov 4, 2026
Cite
- Aroostook County (ME)
- 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
- Maine
- Unit
- $/10×5 lb bale
- Last observation
- May 12, 2022
- Update frequency
- USDA reports on business days
Maine has no recent USDA shipping point coverage: the last quote was May 12, 2022. This page is a historical record of that origin, not a live tracker, and USDA has not resumed quoting it. Last reported FOB: $10.00-10.50, russet 2" or 4 oz minimum, Baled 10 × 5-lb film bags, May 12, 2022.
Maine has no current USDA shipping point coverage. The last quote was May 12, 2022, when russet 2" or 4 oz minimum in Baled 10 × 5-lb film bags was mostly $10.00-10.50 at the shipping point.
Previous weeks
An earlier week
Maine shipping point FOB prices last quoted $10.00-10.50 for russet 2" or 4 oz minimum, baled 10 × 5-lb film bags, on May 12, 2022. USDA has not resumed reporting this origin.
About Maine potato prices
Aroostook County in far northern Maine is New England's storage potato region, growing mostly russets for baking and processing with round whites behind them; on this site about three-quarters of Maine's recorded quotes are russets, with whites most of the rest and a small amount of yellow.
Maine ships in baled consumer bags only, split close to evenly between its two baled-bag formats, with no carton or sack volume recorded here. As a Northeast storage district it is a much smaller market than the West's big russet regions or Michigan, and USDA's published coverage of it has been intermittent: where the page above shows a stale-quote badge, that reflects a genuine gap in USDA's shipping point reports for this district, not a site error, and the shipment-volume figure on this page tracks separately from the price quote, so it can stay current even when the price feed has gone quiet. See the russet page for how Maine's russets have historically compared with the West's storage regions.
Against the national benchmark. The quotes on this page are Maine's alone. For the single figure the trade quotes as the market, potato prices today follows Idaho's 70-count russet carton per carton, per hundredweight, per pound and per potato, with the date of USDA's latest quote.
Season. Maine potatoes typically ship August through March, 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.
Common questions
Why is there no current Maine potato price?
USDA has not published a shipping point quote for Maine since May 12, 2022. That last quote was Norkotah and other russets (2" or 4 oz minimum) in 10×5 lb bales at $10.00-10.50/10×5 lb bale ($20.00-21.00/cwt, $0.20-0.21/lb). This page keeps Maine's quote history as a record rather than presenting an old price as a live one, and it will show a current price again if USDA resumes quoting the district.
When did Maine quote potato prices?
USDA quoted Maine on 74 days in 2022 on this site's record, most of them from February through May. Its last quote was May 12, 2022.
Does Maine still ship potatoes?
Yes. USDA's Daily Movement reports logged 545,000 cwt of fresh Maine potato shipments in the 12 months to Nov 2, 2026, across 46 report days, 13% more than the 12 months before. By type, that volume was 39% round white, 33% yellow and 20% russet. The latest day on record, Nov 2, 2026, logged 12,370 cwt. A hundredweight (cwt) is 100 lb. USDA reports shipments and prices separately, which is why the shipment figures stay current while the price quotes have stopped.