# Onion price trend The market's reference spec, yellow jumbo in 50 lb sacks, at every origin that quotes it, 2021 to 2026 _Data through Aug 21, 2026 · source last checked Aug 24, 2026 · page revised Aug 24, 2026_ > Mostly $15.00 per 50 lb sack, 58% above the 5-yr median. Comparison midpoint: $15.00. Washington yellow jumbo in 50 lb sacks is mostly $15.00 as of 2026-08-21, up 114.3% year over year from $7.00. The current level sits 58% above the 5-year median of $9.50. Idaho-Eastern Oregon quotes $16.00 on 2026-08-21, New Mexico $19.00 on 2026-08-13. ## The table and current price track Washington jumbo, 50 lb sacks. | Period | Current | Prior | Change | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Week over week | $15.00 | $15.00 | 0.0% | | Month over month | $15.00 | $15.00 | 0.0% | | Year over year | $15.00 | $7.00 | +114.3% | | vs 5-yr median | $15.00 | $9.50 | +57.9% | ### Year by year, the lowest and highest price USDA published for this spec at any quoting origin, with the number of origins and report days behind each row. These are published quotes, not averages. The first and last rows are partial: this site's USDA history begins mid-2021, and the current year runs through the latest report. | Year | Lowest quote | Highest quote | Origins quoting | Days quoted | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2021 | $7.00 | $21.00 | 5 | 120 | | 2022 | $12.00 | $30.00 | 7 | 250 | | 2023 | $7.00 | $20.00 | 7 | 249 | | 2024 | $8.00 | $28.00 | 7 | 249 | | 2025 | $5.00 | $14.00 | 6 | 247 | | 2026 | $5.50 | $21.00 | 6 | 161 | ## How to read the onion price trend There is no single national onion price, and this page does not print one. USDA Market News quotes onions district by district, and each quote is a real range from confirmed sales at that shipping point. Averaging those districts together would produce a number no one publishes and no one trades on, so the trend here is read off one fixed specification instead: **yellow jumbo onions in 50-lb sacks**, the most-quoted combination in the USDA file and the closest thing the trade has to a benchmark. Each line above is one origin's real quotes for exactly that spec. The saw-tooth shape is the crop calendar, not volatility. A storage district like Idaho-Eastern Oregon or the Columbia Basin quotes from harvest in late summer through spring and then goes silent when the sheds empty, while the desert and spring-crop districts pick the market up for the summer. A line that stops in April and restarts in August has not crashed. It has finished its season. Follow the origins in relay across the chart rather than reading any single line as the market. The year-by-year table is the plain version of the same story: the lowest and highest price USDA published for this spec in each calendar year, with the number of origins and report days behind it. A wide spread means the year held both a glut and a squeeze. Read the origin count too, because a year with fewer quoting origins is a thinner sample, not necessarily a different market. For the current picture rather than the arc, the [weekly board](/board) ranks this week's biggest moves, and the [variety](/variety) and [pack](/pack) pages cut the same USDA data by product instead of by time. Know Your Onions reports these prices as published and does not forecast where they go next. ## About this data - Source: USDA AMS shipping-point onion FOB reports (FV130) - Series: Yellow jumbo onions, 50 lb sacks, FOB, every quoting origin - Basis: FOB shipping point, low-high range - Geography: Across US growing origins - Unit: $/50 lb sack - Calculation period: Full published history, no averaging across districts - Last observation: Aug 21, 2026 - Update frequency: USDA reports on business days --- Cite: US onion FOB prices at the benchmark yellow jumbo 50-lb sack are 58% above the five-year median for the corresponding calendar week (USDA shipping-point reports). Know Your Onions, data through Aug 21, 2026. https://knowyouronions.news/trend/onion-prices Canonical URL: https://knowyouronions.news/trend/onion-prices