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Potatoes: price received, marketing-year average: Kentucky
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
Kentucky, 1972
$3.95 a hundredweight
Down 2.5% from $4.05 in 1971
United States, 2025
$10.80 a hundredweight
Down 7.7% from $11.70 in 2024
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What the numbers say
- In 1972, Kentucky's price received was 1.3 times the US average.
- From 1963 to 1972 it rose 35.3%, from $2.92 to $3.95 a hundredweight.
Every figure behind this chart
| Year | Kentucky | 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 | No figure | $8.90 |
| 2017 | No figure | $9.17 |
| 2016 | No figure | $9.08 |
| 2015 | No figure | $8.79 |
| 2014 | No figure | $8.97 |
| 2013 | No figure | $9.88 |
| 2012 | No figure | $8.63 |
| 2011 | No figure | $9.41 |
| 2010 | No figure | $9.20 |
| 2009 | No figure | $8.25 |
| 2008 | No figure | $9.09 |
| 2007 | No figure | $7.51 |
| 2006 | No figure | $7.31 |
| 2005 | No figure | $7.04 |
| 2004 | No figure | $5.65 |
| 2003 | No figure | $5.88 |
| 2002 | No figure | $6.67 |
| 2001 | No figure | $6.99 |
| 2000 | No figure | $5.08 |
| 1999 | No figure | $5.76 |
| 1998 | No figure | $5.56 |
| 1997 | No figure | $5.64 |
| 1996 | No figure | $4.91 |
| 1995 | No figure | $6.75 |
| 1994 | No figure | $5.56 |
| 1993 | No figure | $6.16 |
| 1992 | No figure | $5.52 |
| 1991 | No figure | $4.96 |
| 1990 | No figure | $6.08 |
| 1989 | No figure | $7.35 |
| 1988 | No figure | $6 |
| 1987 | No figure | $4.38 |
| 1986 | No figure | $5.03 |
| 1985 | No figure | $3.92 |
| 1984 | No figure | $5.69 |
| 1983 | No figure | $5.82 |
| 1982 | No figure | $4.45 |
| 1981 | No figure | $5.42 |
| 1980 | No figure | $6.55 |
| 1979 | No figure | $3.44 |
| 1978 | No figure | $3.38 |
| 1977 | No figure | $3.55 |
| 1976 | No figure | $3.59 |
| 1975 | No figure | $4.48 |
| 1974 | No figure | $4.01 |
| 1973 | No figure | $4.90 |
| 1972 | $3.95 | $3.02 |
| 1971 | $4.05 | $1.90 |
| 1970 | $4.40 | $2.21 |
| 1969 | $3.70 | $2.24 |
| 1968 | $3.30 | $2.23 |
| 1967 | $3.70 | $1.87 |
| 1966 | $2.75 | $2.04 |
| 1965 | $4.44 | $2.53 |
| 1964 | $3.58 | $3.50 |
| 1963 | $2.92 | $1.78 |
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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.