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White potato FOB across origins, Size A 50 lb sack, USDA shipping point reports
Data through Apr 23, 2026 · source last checked Nov 4, 2026 · page revised Oct 22, 2026
Cite
- Florida
- Virginia
About this data
- Source
- USDA AMS shipping point potato FOB reports (FV130)
- Series
- White potatoes, FOB per hundredweight
- Basis
- FOB shipping point, per hundredweight
- Geography
- Across US growing origins
- Unit
- $/50 lb sack
- Last observation
- Apr 23, 2026
- Update frequency
- USDA reports on business days
White potatoes are not recently quoted at their Size A 50 lb sack benchmark: the last USDA shipping point quote was $26.00-32.95/50 lb sack ($52.00-65.90/cwt, $0.520-0.659/lb) for Size A whites out of Florida on Apr 23, 2026. Each origin quotes on its own crop calendar, so a gap at one pack is normal rotation.
White potatoes are between windows at their Size A 50 lb sack benchmark. The last quote was $26.00-32.95/50 lb sack out of Florida on Apr 23, 2026.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year over year | $29.48/50 lb sack | $31.63/50 lb sack | -6.8% |
| vs 4-yr median | $29.48/50 lb sack | $32.36/50 lb sack | -8.9% |
Previous weeks
An earlier week
White potatoes mostly $26.00-32.95, Size A, 50 lb sack, trade 8.9% below the 4-year median at $29.48 per sack. Month over month the range fell 4.8% from $30.98. The underlying series is stale; Florida last quoted in late April and Virginia in July 2025.
An earlier week
White potatoes holding at $29.48 per 50 lb sack, Size A, flat on the week. Prices slipped 4.8% over the month and sit 9% below the 4-year median. Year-over-year values have fallen 6.8%.
About White potato prices
Round whites are the Eastern and coastal table potato, and their quotes travel with the fresh crop instead of sitting in a cellar all year. The rotation runs around the seaboard: Florida from February into June, North Carolina in July, Virginia from June into August, Delaware from August into October, then New York from October into January and Maine through the winter.
That is why this page can look thin one month and busy the next. Usually only one or two origins are quoting at a time, and when a district finishes its crop its line simply stops. That is the normal rotation, not a data gap.
Whites are also the chipping type, but chip stock is contracted with the plants ahead of the season and never quoted openly, so what shows up in shipping point reports is the fresh end of the white crop. Whites are graded Size A and Size B rather than by count, and they ship in 50 lb sacks and cartons and in consumer bags. With so few origins quoting at once, a white price is close to a single-district price, and when the handoff between two districts is tight the quote can step rather than drift. Week-over-week moves here can look larger than the same week's move on the weekly board for that reason.
Against the national benchmark. White potatoes price off their own supply, but the figure the trade quotes as the market is a russet one: potato prices today follows Idaho's 70-count russet carton per carton, per hundredweight and per pound.
Common questions
What is the current white potato price?
White potatoes are not recently quoted at their Size A 50 lb sack benchmark: the last USDA shipping point quote was $26.00-32.95/50 lb sack ($52.00-65.90/cwt, $0.520-0.659/lb) for Size A whites out of Florida on Apr 23, 2026. Each origin quotes on its own crop calendar, so a gap at one pack is normal rotation. The weekly board lists every quote that is live right now.
Which origins ship white potatoes?
Florida and Virginia are the districts quoting white potatoes at the Size A 50 lb sack benchmark on this page. Each district runs its own season, so which origins appear changes through the year. The US potato calendar covers the handoffs, and the origin pages carry each district on its own.
Why is the price shown as a range?
Because that is what USDA publishes. A shipping point quote is a low-high range across the confirmed sales for that origin, pack and grade, and where the volume supports it USDA also prints a tighter mostly range where the bulk of the trading landed. A single number would be a midpoint nobody actually paid. How to read the USDA National Potato and Onion Report walks through one line field by field.
Is this a retail price?
No. FOB means free on board at the shipping point: the potatoes loaded on a truck at the packing shed, before a mile of freight. A grocery price adds the haul, the wholesaler, the retailer's margin and shrink on top, and it moves far more slowly than the FOB quote does.