Jul 3, 2025USDA numbers show dip of 18,000 acres planted in 2025
USDA reports that growers in the 13 reporting states planted 912,000 acres of potatoes in 2025 — a drop of 18,000 acres, or 1.9%, from 2024 numbers.
The 2025 total is 23,500 acres less than the five-year average planted area in the same states.
Four states reported a downturn in this year’s planted area: Washington (-15,000 acres); Maine (-2,000 acres); Minnesota (-2,000 acres); and North Dakota (-1,000 acres), according to numbers compiled by North American Potato Market News.
Potato acreage in California, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, Nebraska, Oregon, and Texas remained unchanged from the previous year, while Colorado (+1,000 acres) and Wisconsin (+1,000 acres) are the only states that planted more potatoes in 2025 than in 2024.
Growers in most of the processing states received large contract volume reductions for the 2025 crop. This year’s relatively small acreage reduction could indicate that growers planted more uncontracted potatoes than usual.
U.S. packers shipped 1.687 million cwt of table potatoes during the week ending June 28, down from 1.696 million cwt shipped a year earlier.
Michigan packers shipped 31,413 cwt during the week ending June 28, down from 57,300 cwt shipped during the same week in 2024.
