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Not recently quotedLong White potato prices
Long White potato FOB across origins, Size A 50 lb carton, USDA shipping point reports
Data through Jul 10, 2026 · source last checked Nov 4, 2026 · page revised Oct 22, 2026
Cite
- California
About this data
- Source
- USDA AMS shipping point potato FOB reports (FV130)
- Series
- Long White potatoes, FOB per hundredweight
- Basis
- FOB shipping point, per hundredweight
- Geography
- Across US growing origins
- Unit
- $/50 lb carton
- Last observation
- Jul 10, 2026
- Update frequency
- USDA reports on business days
Long white potatoes are not recently quoted at their Size A 50 lb carton benchmark: the last USDA shipping point quote was mostly $24.80-26.80/50 lb carton ($49.60-53.60/cwt, $0.496-0.536/lb) for Size A long whites out of California on Jul 10, 2026. Each origin quotes on its own crop calendar, so a gap at one pack is normal rotation.
Mostly $24.80-26.80/50 lb carton for Size A long whites out of California on Jul 10, 2026, down 2.8% year over year and versus the 5-year median. California long whites are between crop windows.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year over year | $25.80/50 lb carton | $26.55/50 lb carton | -2.8% |
| vs 5-yr median | $25.80/50 lb carton | $26.55/50 lb carton | -2.8% |
Previous weeks
An earlier week
Long White potatoes from California mostly $24.80-26.80, 50 lb carton, flat on the week but down $1.00 month over month. The market sits 3% below the 5-year median.
An earlier week
Long White potatoes in California are $25.80/50 lb carton, down $1.00 on the month and 2.8% below the 5-year median. Week over week, no change.
About Long White potato prices
Long whites are the smallest market this site tracks. They are the long, thin-skinned white potato sold fresh to retail and foodservice, and in USDA shipping point reports they come from one place: California. The crop is planted in late winter and dug in early summer, so long white quotes run from about May into July and then stop until the next season.
That short window shapes the whole page. There is no storage crop behind long whites, no second origin to hand the market off to, and no year-round reference price. The chart above is a season rather than a continuous market, and the page goes quiet in the fall and winter by design.
Long whites are quoted as Size A and Size B, with creamers below, and they ship in 50 lb cartons and sacks. Because the market is one crop out of one state, a long white quote reads as a report on how that crop is running: its size profile, its quality and how much of it is moving in a given week. Compare it with the same weeks of past seasons rather than with the russet board, which is a different potato on a different calendar. The California origin page carries the rest of that state's shipping point quotes.
Against the national benchmark. Long 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 long white potato price?
Long white potatoes are not recently quoted at their Size A 50 lb carton benchmark: the last USDA shipping point quote was mostly $24.80-26.80/50 lb carton ($49.60-53.60/cwt, $0.496-0.536/lb) for Size A long whites out of California on Jul 10, 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 long white potatoes?
California is the district quoting long white potatoes at the Size A 50 lb carton 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.