Michigan vegetable yield and price, 2024
What Michigan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asparagus | 7,500 | 3,600 | $0.909 | $3,272 |
| Bell Peppers | 1,800 | 29,000 | $0.520 | $15,080 |
| Cabbage | 3,800 | 52,000 | $0.169 | $8,788 |
| Cucumbers | 33,900 | 12,500 | $0.127 | $1,588 |
| Pumpkins | 5,100 | 20,500 | $0.162 | $3,321 |
| Snap Beans | 7,400 | 10,500 | $0.245 | $2,572 |
| Squash | 7,300 | 20,000 | $0.230 | $4,600 |
These Michigan 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:
- Fresh-market cabbage (Michigan State University Extension, 2024)
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 Michigan: cost per acre. Other states: North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington, New Jersey.