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 Aug 28, 2026 · page revised Aug 28, 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.
USDA has not quoted Maine shipping point FOBs since May 12, 2022, when the last reported range for russet 2" or 4 oz minimum, baled 10 × 5-lb film bags out of Aroostook County, was $10.00-10.50. This page is a historical record of that origin.
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.
Season. Maine potatoes typically ship September through April, 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.