Jan 14, 2026Revision increases USDA potato production estimates for 2025
USDA has revised its 2025 potato production estimates, now reporting that U.S. growers produced 412.86 million cwt of potatoes.
That’s 798,000 cwt more than USDA’s November crop estimate but 8.31 million cwt, or 2.0%, less than the 2024 crop, according to a North American Potato Market News report compiled for the Michigan Potato Industry Commission.
Production numbers were adjusted for eight of the 13 reporting states, with estimates for Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska, Oregon, and Texas unchanged.
USDA increased Michigan’s harvested area estimate by 500 acres to 47,500. In addition, the average yield estimate increased by 5 cwt, to 435 cwt per acre. Those changes boosted Michigan’s 2025 potato crop to 20.66 million cwt, up 1.2% from 2024 production.
U.S. packers shipped 1.885 million cwt of table potatoes during the week ending Jan. 10, down from 1.892 million cwt shipped a year earlier, according to the report. Michigan packers shipped 33,492 cwt during the same week, down from 71,529 cwt shipped in 2025.
