Origins
No recent coverageVirginia potato prices
Shipping point FOB prices and shipment volume for Virginia, USDA reports
Data through Jul 28, 2025 · source last checked Nov 4, 2026 · page revised Oct 22, 2026
Cite
- Eastern Shore (VA)
- 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
- Virginia
- Unit
- $/50 lb sack
- Last observation
- Jul 28, 2025
- Update frequency
- USDA reports on business days
Virginia has no recent USDA shipping point coverage: the last quote was Jul 28, 2025. This page is a historical record of that origin, not a live tracker, and USDA has not resumed quoting it. Last reported FOB: $12.50, red Size A, 50 lb sack, Jul 28, 2025.
Red Size A from Virginia closed at $12.50, 50 lb sack, on Jul 28, 2025, down 41.9% year over year and 36.7% below the 4-year median. USDA has not resumed shipping point coverage for the state since.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year over year | $12.50/50 lb sack | $21.50/50 lb sack | -41.9% |
| vs 4-yr median | $12.50/50 lb sack | $19.75/50 lb sack | -36.7% |
Previous weeks
An earlier week
Eastern Shore reds last shipped at $12.50 per 50 lb sack on July 28, 2025, down $9.00 year over year and $7.25 below the four-year median. Virginia quotes intermittently with its seasonal window and is not currently shipping.
About Virginia potato prices
Virginia's potatoes are covered by USDA's Onley market news office and come from the Eastern Shore, the peninsula between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic. It is a round-potato fresh-crop district, red, white and yellow in close to even shares on this site, and it has never quoted a russet.
Packing here runs mostly to 50 lb sacks with 2,000 lb bulk totes behind them, a foodservice-and-repack profile rather than the retail-carton mix seen further south in Florida. Virginia sits in the middle of the Eastern Seaboard's round-potato rotation, picking up after Florida and North Carolina finish their runs and handing off to Delaware and New York as the season moves north, so a Virginia quote is a mid-calendar read on the fresh round-potato trade rather than a start- or end-of-season one. See red, white and yellow for how the Eastern Seaboard's fresh-crop districts compare.
Against the national benchmark. The quotes on this page are Virginia'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 Virginia potato price?
USDA has not published a shipping point quote for Virginia since Jul 28, 2025. That last quote was Size A reds in 50 lb sacks at $12.50/50 lb sack ($25.00/cwt, $0.25/lb). This page keeps Virginia'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 Virginia quote potato prices?
USDA quoted Virginia on 101 days between 2021 and 2025 on this site's record, most of them from June through July. Its last quote was Jul 28, 2025.
Does Virginia still ship potatoes?
Not in USDA's current reports. USDA's Daily Movement reports logged 529,000 cwt of fresh Virginia potato shipments in the 12 months to Aug 8, 2025, across 8 report days. By type, that volume was 48% yellow, 26% red and 21% round white. The last day on record, Aug 8, 2025, logged 19,000 cwt. A hundredweight (cwt) is 100 lb. Neither shipments nor prices for Virginia have been reported since.