Origins
Out of seasonFlorida potato prices
Shipping point FOB prices and shipment volume for Florida, USDA reports
Data through Jun 18, 2026 · source last checked Nov 4, 2026 · page revised Oct 22, 2026
Cite
- Florida
- 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
- Florida
- Unit
- $/50 lb carton
- Last observation
- Jun 18, 2026
- Update frequency
- USDA reports on business days
$17.50/50 lb carton (comparison midpoint), 18% below the 2-yr median. Florida 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: $15.00-20.00, red Size A, 50 lb carton, Jun 18, 2026.
Florida is between seasons and not currently quoting shipping point prices. Last reported FOB was $15.00-20.00, red Size A, 50 lb carton, Jun 18. The $17.50 level was up 27.3% year over year but 18% below the 2-yr median.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year over year | $17.50/50 lb carton | $13.75/50 lb carton | +27.3% |
| vs 2-yr median | $17.50/50 lb carton | $21.35/50 lb carton | -18.0% |
Previous weeks
An earlier week
Red potatoes from Florida last quoted mostly $15.00-20.00, 50 lb carton, size A, on June 18. At the $17.50 midpoint, the price is up from $13.75 a year earlier but remains 18% below the 2-year median of $21.35. Florida is between windows and not currently quoting shipping point prices.
About Florida potato prices
Florida grows a single winter-and-spring fresh crop, red, white and yellow round potatoes, with red carrying the most volume of the three on this site, and it is one of the larger fresh-market origins outside the West's storage regions. It has never quoted a russet.
Packing splits fairly evenly between 50 lb sacks and 50 lb cartons, with 2,000 lb bulk totes and baled consumer bags behind them, so no single pack style defines a Florida quote the way cartons define Idaho's. Because Florida is a fresh crop rather than a storage one, it ships for a defined stretch of the year and then stops until the next planting, the same rotation pattern as California and the East Coast's round-potato districts, just earlier in the calendar than most of them. Florida's finish typically hands the round-potato trade off to the mid-Atlantic districts, Virginia, Delaware and North Carolina, as their own crops come in behind it. See red, white and yellow for how Florida's prices compare with the other fresh-crop origins.
Against the national benchmark. The quotes on this page are Florida'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.
Season. Florida potatoes typically ship March 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.
Common questions
What is the current price of Florida potatoes?
Florida is not quoting shipping point prices right now. Its last USDA quote, on Jun 18, 2026, was Size A reds in 50 lb cartons at $15.00-20.00/50 lb carton ($30.00-40.00/cwt, $0.30-0.40/lb). The weekly board lists every origin quoting this week.
When does Florida quote potato prices?
On this site's record since 2022, Florida shipping point quotes run from March through June. Each district quotes on its own crop calendar, so a quiet stretch is the normal rotation, not a gap in the data.
How do Florida potato prices compare with last year?
At its last quote on Jun 18, 2026, the red Size A 50 lb carton midpoint was $17.50/50 lb carton, up 27% from $13.75/50 lb carton a year earlier and 18% below its 2-yr median of $21.35/50 lb carton for the date.
Why do Florida potato prices change?
Florida ships a fresh crop, most of it between March and May by USDA movement data, so its price follows how each season's harvest comes in and how its timing overlaps the districts shipping before and after it. In the 12 months to Jun 18, 2026, the red Size A 50 lb carton midpoint ran from $13.75/50 lb carton (Jun 20, 2025) to $25.00/50 lb carton (Mar 31, 2026), and it changed on 11 of its 82 report days; the biggest one-day move was +$4.00/50 lb carton on Mar 31, 2026. What moves potato prices covers the supply side in more depth.
How many potatoes does Florida ship?
USDA's Daily Movement reports logged 2.1 million cwt of fresh Florida potato shipments in the 12 months to Jun 30, 2026, across 102 report days, 12% less than the 12 months before. By type, that volume was 51% yellow, 40% red and 9% round white. The last day on record, Jun 30, 2026, logged 6,800 cwt. A hundredweight (cwt) is 100 lb.