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Arkansas sweet potato crop

USDA last rated the 2024 Arkansas sweet potato crop for the week ending Oct 13, when 79% was good or excellent. Harvest stood at 100% complete. USDA last published a production estimate for the state in 2018, when the crop finished at 1.1 million cwt.

Last rated week ending Oct 13, 2024

Good to excellent · last reading

79%of the crop

Share of the 2024 crop rated good or excellent for the week ending Oct 13.

–

100%

Harvested

As of Nov 17.

Analysis

Week ending Sep 27

Arkansas sweet potatoes rated far ahead of last year

Arkansas sweet potatoes were rated 84% good to excellent for the week ending Sept. 27, down 1 point from the prior week but far above the 51% mark recorded at the same point last year. Fair-rated acreage stood at 16%, with none rated poor or very poor. Harvest reached 39% complete, trailing last year's 51% pace for this date. Planting had wrapped up at 100% back in mid-July. With harvest running behind last year, the coming weeks of digging will show whether that pace narrows before the season's next condition report.

Written from USDA data and source reports

Weekly ratings

Crop condition, 2024

Bars are the full USDA rating split each week. The dashed line is the five-year average for good plus excellent; the dotted line is last year.

202620252024
Arkansas sweet potato crop condition, 20240%25%50%75%100%Week ending Aug 18: Very poor 0%, Poor 0%, Fair 9%, Good 91%, Excellent 0% — good+excellent 91% (5-yr avg —, last year —)Week ending Aug 25: Very poor 1%, Poor 1%, Fair 10%, Good 87%, Excellent 1% — good+excellent 88% (5-yr avg —, last year —)Week ending Sep 1: Very poor 0%, Poor 0%, Fair 14%, Good 86%, Excellent 0% — good+excellent 86% (5-yr avg —, last year —)Week ending Sep 8: Very poor 0%, Poor 0%, Fair 15%, Good 85%, Excellent 0% — good+excellent 85% (5-yr avg —, last year —)Week ending Sep 15: Very poor 0%, Poor 0%, Fair 19%, Good 81%, Excellent 0% — good+excellent 81% (5-yr avg —, last year —)Week ending Sep 22: Very poor 0%, Poor 0%, Fair 14%, Good 86%, Excellent 0% — good+excellent 86% (5-yr avg —, last year —)Week ending Sep 29: Very poor 0%, Poor 0%, Fair 19%, Good 81%, Excellent 0% — good+excellent 81% (5-yr avg —, last year —)Week ending Oct 6: Very poor 0%, Poor 0%, Fair 19%, Good 81%, Excellent 0% — good+excellent 81% (5-yr avg —, last year —)Week ending Oct 13: Very poor 0%, Poor 0%, Fair 21%, Good 79%, Excellent 0% — good+excellent 79% (5-yr avg —, last year —)Harvest begins — week ending Sep 22Harvest begins−5 pts — week ending Sep 29−5 ptsAug 18Sep 1Sep 15Sep 29Oct 13
Very poorPoorFairGoodExcellent5-yr avg good+excellentLast year

Latest: 79% good or excellent, week ending Oct 13. Hover a bar for the full breakdown.

Field progress

Harvested, 2024

This season against the five-year average pace and last year.

Arkansas sweet potato harvested, 20240%50%100%Harvested, week ending Aug 25: 0% (5-yr avg —, last year —)Harvested, week ending Sep 1: 0% (5-yr avg —, last year —)Harvested, week ending Sep 8: 0% (5-yr avg —, last year —)Harvested, week ending Sep 15: 0% (5-yr avg —, last year —)Harvested, week ending Sep 22: 10% (5-yr avg —, last year —)Harvested, week ending Sep 29: 36% (5-yr avg —, last year —)Harvested, week ending Oct 6: 42% (5-yr avg —, last year —)Harvested, week ending Oct 13: 51% (5-yr avg —, last year —)Harvested, week ending Oct 20: 64% (5-yr avg —, last year —)Harvested, week ending Oct 27: 71% (5-yr avg —, last year —)Harvested, week ending Nov 3: 95% (5-yr avg —, last year —)Harvested, week ending Nov 10: 99% (5-yr avg —, last year —)Harvested, week ending Nov 17: 100% (5-yr avg —, last year —)Aug 25Sep 8Sep 22Oct 6Oct 20Nov 3Nov 17
This year5-yr avgLast year

Harvested: 100% as of Nov 17.

Production record

Final crop by year, through 2018

USDA published production estimates for Arkansas sweet potato through 2018 and has not surveyed the state since.

Arkansas sweet potato crop: final estimate by year00.511.5million cwt2010: no forecast · final 0.5 million cwt20102011: no forecast · final 0.6 million cwt20112012: no forecast · final 0.8 million cwt20122013: no forecast · final 0.7 million cwt20132014: no forecast · final 0.7 million cwt20142015: no forecast · final 0.7 million cwt20152018: no forecast · final 1.1 million cwt2018
Crop yearFinal (million cwt)Crop valueShare of US
20181.1 million cwt$24M3.9%
20150.7 million cwt$20M2.4%
20140.7 million cwt—2.2%
20130.7 million cwt$21M2.7%
20120.8 million cwt$24M2.9%
20110.6 million cwt$10M2.3%
20100.5 million cwt$7M2.0%

USDA published annual estimates for this state through 2018. It has since been dropped from the annual survey, so there is no newer production figure — the weekly condition ratings above are the current measure.

Source: USDA NASS Crop Progress (weekly, April–November) and Crop Production reports. This product uses the NASS API but is not endorsed or certified by NASS.

Updated September 29, 2026

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