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Yellow potato FOB across origins, Size A 50 lb sack, USDA shipping point reports
Data through Nov 3, 2026 · source last checked Nov 4, 2026 · page revised Nov 4, 2026
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- Wisconsin
- Florida
- Red River Valley
- Virginia
About this data
- Source
- USDA AMS shipping point potato FOB reports (FV130)
- Series
- Yellow potatoes, FOB per hundredweight
- Basis
- FOB shipping point, per hundredweight
- Geography
- Across US growing origins
- Unit
- $/50 lb sack
- Last observation
- Nov 3, 2026
- Update frequency
- USDA reports on business days
Yellow potatoes sold for $16.00-18.50/50 lb sack ($32.00-37.00/cwt, $0.32-0.37/lb) FOB at the shipping point on Nov 3, 2026, for Size A yellows out of Wisconsin, per USDA shipping point reports. At $17.25/50 lb sack, the Size A 50 lb sack midpoint is 15% above its 5-yr median for the date.
Size A yellow potatoes out of Wisconsin sold for $16.00-18.50/50 lb sack, up 4.5% on the week. The $17.25 midpoint is 15% above the 5-year median for this date.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $17.25/50 lb sack | $16.50/50 lb sack | +4.5% |
| Month over month | $17.25/50 lb sack | n/a | n/a |
| Year over year | $17.25/50 lb sack | $14.50/50 lb sack | +19.0% |
| vs 5-yr median | $17.25/50 lb sack | $15.00/50 lb sack | +15.0% |
Previous weeks
An earlier week
Wisconsin Size A yellows at $16.00-17.00/50 lb sack, up 13.8% year over year from $14.50/50 lb sack and 10% above the 5-yr median for the date. Week over week pricing held flat.
Week of Oct 30, 2026
Size A yellows from Wisconsin sold for $16.00-17.00/50 lb sack FOB on Oct 30, with the midpoint 10% above the 5-year median for the date. Week over week prices fell 0.8%; year over year they rose 13.8%.
An earlier week
Size A yellows out of Wisconsin sold for $16.00-17.00/50 lb sack on Oct 29, 2026, up 13.8% from a year ago. The $16.50 midpoint sits 10% above the 5-year median for this date. Week over week the sack eased 0.8%.
An earlier week
Size A yellow potatoes out of Wisconsin brought $16.00-17.00/50 lb sack on Oct 28, 2026, per USDA shipping point reports. At the $16.50/50 lb sack midpoint, the level is 8% above its 5-year median for the date. Week over week, the level eased 0.8%.
About Yellow potato prices
Per pound and per bushel. At the 50 lb sack quote above, $16.00-18.50/50 lb sack for Size A yellows out of Wisconsin on Nov 3, 2026, yellows work out to $0.32-0.37/lb and $19.20-22.20 for a 60 lb bushel at the shipping point. The 50 lb sack price calculator converts any live USDA sack quote per sack, pound, bushel and hundredweight, and potato sack prices by origin lists every one.
Yellow potatoes moved from specialty item to staple in the fresh potato case, and the retail bag is where most of them end up. Like reds they are a fresh-market variety, sold in consumer bags, 50 lb sacks and cartons and bulk totes, and graded as Size A and Size B with creamers below rather than by carton count.
Two origins carry most of the quoted volume. Florida's winter and spring crop quotes from February into June, and the Red River Valley ships yellows out of storage from October into May. Wisconsin covers the fall and early winter, California runs May through July, and New York, Minnesota, Virginia and Delaware fill in around them, so the origin lines on the chart above hand off around the calendar rather than running side by side all year.
The yellow market is thin next to russets and it trades that way. A short crop at one origin, or a change in what a few large retail programs are buying, can move yellow FOB prices while russets sit still. That is what a cross-origin chart is for: when only one line steps, the story is that district's crop, and when the lines move together it is the round-potato market repricing. Read yellows against reds, not against the russet board.
Against the national benchmark. Yellow 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 yellow potato price?
Yellow potatoes sold for $16.00-18.50/50 lb sack ($32.00-37.00/cwt, $0.32-0.37/lb) FOB at the shipping point on Nov 3, 2026, for Size A yellows out of Wisconsin, per USDA shipping point reports. USDA publishes a range rather than a single figure, and the chart above compares that same pack across every origin currently quoting it.
Which origins ship yellow potatoes?
Wisconsin, Florida, Red River Valley and Virginia are the districts quoting yellow 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.