Current price
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Yellow jumbo onions in 50 lb sacks are quoted at $14.00-15.00 per 50 lb sack FOB at Idaho-Eastern Oregon as of Oct 16, 2026 (USDA), the market's benchmark spec.
Data through Oct 16, 2026 · source last checked Oct 17, 2026 · page revised Oct 17, 2026
Cite
- Comparison midpoint
- USDA mostly / low-high range
About this data
- Source
- USDA AMS shipping-point onion FOB reports (FV130)
- Series
- Yellow jumbo onions, 50 lb sacks, Idaho-Eastern Oregon, FOB
- Basis
- FOB shipping point, low-high range
- Geography
- Idaho-Eastern Oregon
- Unit
- $/50 lb sack
- Last observation
- Oct 16, 2026
- Update frequency
- USDA reports on business days, in season
Yellow jumbo onions in 50 lb sacks are quoted at $14.00-15.00 per 50 lb sack FOB at Idaho-Eastern Oregon as of Oct 16, 2026 (USDA), the market's benchmark spec.
Yellow jumbo, $14.00-15.00 per 50 lb sack FOB Idaho-Eastern Oregon as of Oct 16, held flat on the week. Month over month prices fell 9.4%. Year over year they are up 114.8% from the prior year and up 70.6% versus the five-year median.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $14.50 | $14.50 | 0.0% |
| Month over month | $14.50 | $16.00 | -9.4% |
| Year over year | $14.50 | $6.75 | +114.8% |
| vs 5-yr median | $14.50 | $8.50 | +70.6% |
Previous weeks
An earlier week
Yellow jumbo onions are quoted at $14.00-15.00 per 50 lb sack FOB at Idaho-Eastern Oregon as of Oct 15, 2026 (USDA). The market held flat on the week but fell 9.4 percent on the month from $16.00. Prices are up 114.8 percent year over year from $6.75 and sit 70.6 percent above the five-year median of $8.50.
Week of Oct 9, 2026
Yellow jumbo onions at $14.00-15.00 per 50 lb sack FOB at Idaho-Eastern Oregon as of Oct 9, 2026, are down 6.5% on the week. Year over year, the market is up 107.1% and 52.6% above the 5-year median.
Week of Oct 2, 2026
Yellow jumbo onions in 50-lb sacks are quoted at mostly $15.00-16.00 per 50 lb sack FOB at Idaho-Eastern Oregon as of Oct 2, 2026. The benchmark has retreated 3.1% on the week and stands 121.4% above the year-ago level of $7.00.
Week of Sep 25, 2026
Yellow jumbo onions in 50 lb sacks are mostly $16.00 per sack FOB at Idaho-Eastern Oregon as of Sep 25, 2026, steady week over week. Year on year the benchmark is up from $7.00 and sits above its 5-year median of $9.50.
What moves onion prices
The price on this page is a wholesale one: what a truckload trades for at the packing shed, free on board (FOB) the shipping point, at the market's reference spec of yellow jumbo onions in 50 lb sacks at Idaho-Eastern Oregon, the flagship storage origin. It is not a grocery-shelf price; the store adds freight, handling and retail margin on top of it.
What moves it is supply-side and seasonal. The Northwest storage crop is harvested once, in late summer, and shipped from sheds into the following spring, so the size and keeping quality of that one crop shape the whole marketing year, and the calendar of origin rotation decides how many alternatives buyers have in any given week. The weekly board shows which origins are quoting and what moved, and the long-run trend page shows the seasonal sawtooth across years.
For the full structural treatment, Why are onion prices rising right now? and its falling twin cover the drivers in both directions.
Common questions
What is the current price of onions?
Yellow jumbo onions in 50 lb sacks are quoted at $14.00-15.00 per 50 lb sack FOB at Idaho-Eastern Oregon as of Oct 16, 2026 (USDA), the market's benchmark spec. This is the wholesale FOB price at the shipping point, what a truckload trades for at the packing shed, not a grocery-shelf price. Other origins, varieties and packs quote their own ranges on the weekly board, and the onion price trend sets this spec against its five-year history.
Are onion prices going up or down right now?
Onion prices at the benchmark spec are falling right now. It has fallen 3 consecutive weeks on the comparison midpoint. Why are onion prices falling right now? has the current story.
What does "mostly" mean in a USDA onion quote?
USDA publishes each price as a range, and where it reports one, a mostly range: the range where the bulk of reported sales occurred. This page always quotes the published range. The only single number on it is the comparison midpoint the percent moves are computed on, which is a derived figure, never a price USDA published.
Is this what onions cost at the grocery store?
No. This is the wholesale FOB price at the shipping point, quoted per 50 lb sack. A grocery-shelf price adds freight, handling, packaging and retail margin on top, and this site does not track retail shelf prices.
Where does this onion price data come from?
From USDA Agricultural Marketing Service shipping-point reports, which quote FOB prices by origin, variety, pack and size on business days while an origin is in season. The methodology page has the full sourcing.