Origins
No recent coverageNorth Carolina potato prices
Shipping point FOB prices and shipment volume for North Carolina, USDA reports
Data through Jul 25, 2022 · source last checked Nov 4, 2026 · page revised Oct 22, 2026
Cite
- Elizabeth City (NC)
- 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
- North Carolina
- Unit
- $/50 lb sack
- Last observation
- Jul 25, 2022
- Update frequency
- USDA reports on business days
North Carolina has no recent USDA shipping point coverage: the last quote was Jul 25, 2022. This page is a historical record of that origin, not a live tracker, and USDA has not resumed quoting it. Last reported FOB: $13.00-15.00, yellow Size B, 50 lb sack, Jul 25, 2022.
North Carolina has no recent USDA shipping point coverage. The last quote was yellow Size B, 50 lb sack, $13.00-15.00, on Jul 25, 2022, and USDA has not resumed reporting from this origin.
Previous weeks
An earlier week
USDA ceased quoting North Carolina shipping point FOB in July 2022; the last report showed yellow Size B at $13.00-15.00, 50 lb sack.
About North Carolina potato prices
North Carolina's quotes on this site are covered by USDA's Raleigh market news office and come from the Elizabeth City district in the state's northeast. It is a round red, yellow and white fresh-crop district in close to even shares here, and it has never quoted a russet.
Packing runs mostly to 2,000 lb bulk totes, the same repack profile as its mid-Atlantic neighbors, with 50 lb sacks and a small amount of baled consumer bags behind it. North Carolina typically opens the mid-Atlantic's round-potato season before Virginia, Delaware and New York pick it up further north. USDA's shipping point coverage of the district has gone quiet in recent years; where the page above shows a stale-quote badge, that is a real reporting gap rather than a site error, and this is the district whose expected season length makes that gap register fastest of the four Eastern Seaboard origins this site tracks. See red, yellow and white for the rotation it sits within.
Against the national benchmark. The quotes on this page are North Carolina'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.
Common questions
Why is there no current North Carolina potato price?
USDA has not published a shipping point quote for North Carolina since Jul 25, 2022. That last quote was Size B yellows in 50 lb sacks at $13.00-15.00/50 lb sack ($26.00-30.00/cwt, $0.26-0.30/lb). This page keeps North Carolina'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 North Carolina quote potato prices?
USDA quoted North Carolina on 26 days between 2021 and 2022 on this site's record, all or nearly all of them in July. Its last quote was Jul 25, 2022.
Does North Carolina still ship potatoes?
Not in USDA's current reports. USDA's Daily Movement reports logged 92,000 cwt of fresh North Carolina potato shipments in the 12 months to Jul 27, 2024, across 26 report days. By type, that volume was 36% yellow, 29% mixed and 18% red. The last day on record, Jul 27, 2024, logged 8,928 cwt. A hundredweight (cwt) is 100 lb. Neither shipments nor prices for North Carolina have been reported since.