Potatoes
US production, yield, acres and prices received by farmers
417.6M cwt
production, 2025
417.6M cwt
production, 2025
US farmers harvested 417.6 million hundredweight of potatoes in 2025, down 0.8% from 2024. The yield is 462 hundredweight per acre on 873,000 acres planted. Idaho grows the most, 33.5% of the US total. Farmers received $9.31 per hundredweight in Jul 2017.
Updated Oct 10, 2026 · data 2000 to 2026
Production
417.6M cwt
-0.8% vs 2024 · 2025
Yield
462 cwt/acre
+1.8% vs 2024 · 2025
Area planted
873K acres
-3.9% vs 2025 · 2026 forecast
Price received
$9.31/cwt
-2.6% vs a year earlier · Jul 2017
Over the years
United States, 2000 to 2026
Production
hundredweight (100 lb), by year
Yield
hundredweight per acre harvested
Acres planted and harvested
Acres by year
Value of production
US dollars, by year
The orange dot is this crop year's forecast; it is replaced by the final estimate after the harvest.
Prices received by farmers
Average price farmers received each month, dollars per hundredweight
Monthly price received
Jan 2000 to Jul 2017
Jul 2017
$9.31/cwt
-2.6% vs a year earlier
2025/26 marketing year
$10.80/cwt
-7.7% vs the year before
The average price of all sales by farmers, not a futures or cash market price.
By state
Production of potatoes in each state, 2025, cwt
Production by state
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States with the most potatoes
And the share of the US total
| State | Production (cwt) | Share of US | Change vs year before |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | 139,953,000 | 33.5% | +3.5% |
| Washington | 91,035,000 | 21.8% | -7.9% |
| Wisconsin | 29,145,000 | 7.0% | +10.4% |
| Oregon | 26,035,000 | 6.2% | -0.5% |
| North Dakota | 24,255,000 | 5.8% | -4.2% |
| Colorado | 23,016,000 | 5.5% | +4.3% |
| Michigan | 20,370,000 | 4.9% | -0.3% |
| Minnesota | 17,270,000 | 4.1% | -3.5% |
| Maine | 17,127,000 | 4.1% | -6.5% |
| Nebraska | 9,652,000 | 2.3% | -4.8% |
| California | 8,883,000 | 2.1% | -0.7% |
| Texas | 6,205,000 | 1.5% | -8.6% |
| Florida | 4,648,000 | 1.1% | +1.0% |
Questions and answers
How much potatoes does the US produce?
417.6 million hundredweight in 2025, down 0.8% from the year before. The 2025 crop was worth $4.5 billion.
Which state grows the most potatoes?
Idaho, with 140.0 million hundredweight in 2025 (33.5% of the US), followed by Washington and Wisconsin.
What is the average potatoes yield per acre?
462 hundredweight per acre in 2025, compared with 454 cwt/acre the year before.
How many acres of potatoes are planted in the US?
873,000 acres are expected in 2026, down 3.9% from the year before.
What price do farmers get for potatoes?
$9.31 per hundredweight on average in Jul 2017, down 2.6% from a year earlier. For the 2025/26 marketing year the average was $10.80 per hundredweight.
Official government statistics since 2000, updated weekly. Production, yield and harvested area of corn and sorghum are for grain; planted area is for all uses. Empty values were not published; they are not zero.