North Carolina vegetable yield and price, 2024
What North Carolina 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 | 1,800 | 20,500 | $0.444 | $9,102 |
| Cabbage | 2,500 | 30,000 | $0.212 | $6,360 |
| Cucumbers | 8,000 | 14,500 | $0.208 | $3,016 |
| Pumpkins | 4,100 | 11,000 | $0.363 | $3,993 |
| Squash | 3,400 | 9,500 | $0.369 | $3,506 |
| Sweet Potato | 86,500 | 15,000 | $0.197 | $2,955 |
These North Carolina 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:
- Sweetpotato (NC State Extension — Agricultural & Resource Economics, 2025)
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 North Carolina: cost per acre. Other states: Georgia, Florida, Virginia, Mississippi, Texas, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington, New Jersey.