New Jersey vegetable yield and price, 2024
What New Jersey 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 | 2,200 | 30,500 | $0.787 | $24,004 |
| Squash | 2,900 | 11,000 | $0.415 | $4,565 |
These New Jersey 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:
- Bell pepper (integrated crop management) (Rutgers Cooperative Extension — Farm Management, 1996)
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 New Jersey: cost per acre. Other states: North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington.