Farm & food prices · Prices farmers receive
Potatoes: price received, marketing-year average: Illinois
The average price farmers received per hundredweight for potatoes over each marketing year, from USDA's agricultural prices survey.
Up to dateYearly (marketing-year average). Last published Sep 25, 2026. Next expected April 2027.
The latest figures and how they have changed
Illinois, 2018
$9.01 a hundredweight
Down 9.9% from $10 in 2017
United States, 2025
$10.80 a hundredweight
Down 7.7% from $11.70 in 2024
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What the numbers say
- In 2018, Illinois's price received was the same as the US average.
- From 2014 to 2018 it fell 7.1%, from $9.70 to $9.01 a hundredweight.
Every figure behind this chart
| Year | Illinois | United States |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | No figure | $10.80 |
| 2024 | No figure | $11.70 |
| 2023 | No figure | $12.30 |
| 2022 | No figure | $12.90 |
| 2021 | No figure | $10.20 |
| 2020 | No figure | $9.30 |
| 2019 | No figure | $9.93 |
| 2018 | $9.01 | $8.90 |
| 2017 | $10 | $9.17 |
| 2016 | $10 | $9.08 |
| 2015 | $8.30 | $8.79 |
| 2014 | $9.70 | $8.97 |
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Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Agricultural Prices Survey. State and US estimates released Sep 25, 2026. Quick Stats item "POTATOES - PRICE RECEIVED, MEASURED IN $ / CWT". Retrieved Oct 23, 2026; snapshot 2026-10-23.1. Dollars as published, not adjusted for inflation. This product uses the NASS API but is not endorsed or certified by NASS.
What this measures
It is USDA's average for a whole marketing year, weighted by how much of it sold in each month of the marketing year, so it is not the average of the monthly prices.