Florida vegetable yield and price, 2024
What Florida growers actually harvested and were paid per crop in 2024, from USDA's crop-by-crop vegetable tables. These are state averages, not a forecast.
| Crop | Acres | Lb per acre | Price per lb | Sales per acre |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bell Peppers | 11,900 | 27,000 | $0.629 | $16,983 |
| Cabbage | 6,900 | 34,000 | $0.286 | $9,724 |
| Cucumbers | 17,000 | 14,000 | $0.222 | $3,108 |
| Snap Beans | 32,300 | 5,200 | $0.533 | $2,772 |
| Squash | 6,900 | 11,500 | $0.526 | $6,049 |
| Sweet Corn | 45,000 | 13,000 | $0.524 | $6,812 |
| Tomatoes | 23,200 | 27,500 | $0.524 | $14,410 |
These Florida university budgets match a USDA crop above. The profit calculator offers the USDA figure as a sales choice, and the breakeven calculator compares USDA's price with your breakeven:
- Staked tomato (UF/IFAS — Food & Resource Economics, 2020)
- Bell pepper (UF/IFAS — Food & Resource Economics, 2020)
Source: USDA NASS Vegetables 2024 Summary, state-by-crop tables (area harvested, yield per acre, price per cwt), 2024. Yield is USDA's hundredweight figure × 100; price is its price per hundredweight ÷ 100; sales per acre is yield × price.
USDA combines fresh-market and processing sales, so for crops mostly sold to processors the price runs low. USDA surveys only the larger vegetable states and crops; a missing crop means USDA didn't report it, not that nobody grows it.
Prices are what growers received on average. Direct-market and specialty sales often bring more; your own sales records are always better.
Costs for Florida: cost per acre. Other states: North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington, New Jersey.