Origins
Out of seasonMichigan potato prices
Shipping point FOB prices and shipment volume for Michigan, USDA reports
Data through Jul 2, 2026 · source last checked Aug 28, 2026 · page revised Aug 28, 2026
Cite
- Michigan
- 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
- Michigan
- Unit
- $/5×10 lb bale
- Last observation
- Jul 2, 2026
- Update frequency
- USDA reports on business days
Michigan 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: mostly $10.50-11.00, russet unsized, Baled 5 × 10-lb film bags, Jul 2, 2026.
Michigan is between windows. Last reported FOB: mostly $10.50-11.00, russet unsized, Baled 5 × 10-lb film bags, Jul 2, 2026.
Previous weeks
An earlier week
Michigan baled bags at 10.75 per 50 lb master, up 25 cents on the month.
About Michigan potato prices
Michigan's potato quotes, covered by USDA's Benton Harbor market news office, are a storage russet district, the one Midwest or Eastern origin that quotes russets the way Idaho, the Columbia Basin, the San Luis Valley and Wisconsin do further west. Every quote this site has on record for Michigan is a russet.
Michigan is also the one origin on this site that ships almost entirely in baled consumer bags rather than 50 lb cartons or sacks, split close to evenly between its two baled-bag formats. That makes it a consumer-bag benchmark for russets east of the Mississippi, distinct from the carton-and-count trade that defines the four western storage regions. As a storage origin it digs in the fall and draws down its cellars over months rather than shipping a short fresh-crop window. Compare it with the western storage regions on the russet page, keeping in mind that a Michigan quote is a bagged retail-style price, not a foodservice carton price.
Season. Michigan potatoes typically ship October 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.