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Contents
Industry Overview 2
Fresh Market Vegetables 5
Input Prices 11
Organic and Greenhouse Vegetables 14
Processing Vegetables 19
Potatoes 28
Pulse Crops: Dry Beans, Peas, Lentils, and Chickpeas 31
Special Article: Ripe for Fresh Market Insight - Filling the Gaps in Greenhouse Tomato Production and Trade 37
Special Article: Trade Related Data Products for Specialty Crops 46
Appendix A: Fresh Vegetables 51
Appendix B: Processed Vegetab(원문불량) 57
Appendix C: Potatoes 59
Appendix D: Pulse Crops 61
Table 1. U.S. vegetable and pulse industry at a glance, 2020-23 3
Table 2. Annual U.S. production of top fresh-market vegetables, 2020-23 9
Table 3. Selected U.S. indices of prices paid by farmers, 2021-24 11
Table 4. U.S. certified organic vegetable farms, harvested acreage, and sales, 2008-21 18
Figure 1. Grower prices for selected fresh-market vegetables, 2022-24 4
Figure 2. Rise in high-earning vegetable and melon farms contrasts with declines in lower sales categories in 2022 5
Figure 3. Fresh market vegetable areas see slight growth against a backdrop of processing area decline in 2022 6
Figure 4. Per capita availability for fresh vegetable crops over 10 pounds per person annually 7
Figure 5. Monthly index insights: Tracking the vegetable price index, 2019-24 10
Figure 6. Organic and conventional weekly average domestic FOB prices for selected vegetables 14
Figure 7. Fresh bell pepper imports by color and greenhouse designation, January 2023-February 2024 15
Figure 8. Zucchini is top organic squash by import volume, January 2023-February 2024 16
Figure 9. Operations with area in greenhouse vegetable production 17
Figure 10. Contracted planted acreage and production for California processing tomatoes, 2010-24 20
Figure 11. Inventories of processed tomato products decreased from 2017 to 2023, before increasing in 2024 21
Figure 12. U.S. consumer and producer price indices for selected processed vegetables, 2022-24 23
Figure 13. Per capita availability of processing vegetables, 2020-23f 26
Figure 14. Share of selected vegetable area destined for processing, 2022 27
Figure 15. Monthly fresh potato grower prices fall after 2023/24 fall harvest 28
Figure 16. Potato production and stocks: top 13 potato-producing States in the last 4 seasons 29
Figure 17. U.S. dry pulses: Per capita availability, 2019-23 32
Figure 18. U.S. dry edible bean planted area and season-average price, 2020-24 33
Figure 19. U.S. dry pea, lentil, and chickpea planted acres, 2020-24 33
Figure 20. U.S. dry bean export volume: 2023/24 marketing YTD second highest since 1990/91 34
Figure 21. U.S. dry edible beans: Average monthly grower price 35
Figure 22. U.S. dry edible pea and lentils: Average monthly grower price 36
Special Article Tables
Table SA1-1. Fresh greenhouse tomato import code information, July 1999-February 2024 45
Table SA2-1. Changes in production, trade, and availability of specialty crops from 2012 to 2022 (billions of pounds) 46
Special Article Figures
Figure SA1-1. Fresh tomato greenhouse area and yield estimates, 1997-2023 39
Figure SA1-2. U.S. fresh field-grown and greenhouse tomato production, 1997-2023 40
Figure SA1-3. Fresh tomato import growth driven by greenhouse production 41
Figure SA1-4. Greenhouse tomato imports from Mexico trend upward in the 21st century 42
Figure SA1-5. Comparison of greenhouse vs. non-greenhouse tomato import volumes by type, 2023 42
Figure SA2-1. U.S. monthly consumer and producer price indexes 47
Figure SA2-2. Tomatoes: U.S. imports by value (in $1,000 U.S. dollars) 48
Table A1/Table A5. Fresh market vegetables: Per capita availability, 2019-23 51
Table A2/Table A6. Annual U.S. production of selected fresh-market vegetables, 2020-23 52
Table A3/Table A7. Selected fresh-market vegetable trade volume, 2021-24 53
Table A4/Table A8. Domestic organic and conventional vegetables FOB prices per pound, 2023-24 54
Table A5/Table A9. Selected U.S. fresh market shipment volumes, January-March 2023-24 55
Table A6/Table A10. Selected organic vegetable and pulses commodity trade volume, 2021-24 56
Table B7/Table B11. Selected processed vegetable import value, 2021-24 57
Table B8/Table B12. Selected processed vegetable export value, 2021-24 58
Table C9/Table C13. U.S. potato trade volume, September-August 2020/21-2023/24 59
Table C10/Table C14. U.S. per capita domestic availability of potatoes 60
Table D11/Table D15. U.S. dry edible beans: Area, yield, production, crop value, and price, 2020-24 61
Table D12/Table D16. U.S. dry edible peas: Area, yield, production, crop value, and price, 2020-24 61
Table D13/Table D17. U.S. lentils: Area, yield, production, crop value, and price, 2020-24 61
Table D14/Table D18. U.S. chickpeas, all: Area, yield, production, crop value, and price, 2020-24 62
Table D15/Table D19. U.S. chickpeas, large: Area, yield, production, crop value, and price, 2020-24 62
Table D16/Table D20. U.S. chickpeas, small: Area, yield, production, crop value, and price, 2020-24 62
Table D17/Table D21. U.S. dry edible bean crop-year export volume, 2020/21-2023/24 63
Table D18/Table D22. U.S. dry bean crop-year import volume, 2020/21-2023/24 64
Table D19/Table D23. U.S. dry peas and lentils: Export volume by class, 2020/21-2023/24 65
Table D20/Table D24. U.S. dry peas and lentils: Import volume by class, 2020/21-2023/24 66
Table D21/Table D25. U.S. chickpeas: Export volume by class, 2020/21-2023/24 67
Table D22/Table D26. U.S. chickpeas: Import volume by class, 2020/21-2023/24 68