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Multi-year FOB prices by region, long-run shipment volume and the freight cycle.
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FOB Price History
FOB Price by Region —
Weekly price by reporting region — the band below shows who was quoting each month.
Shipment Volume
Volume History —
Monthly totals since 2020; dots mark each year’s peak month.
Volume vs Normal —
Is supply heavy or light for the time of year? The last four weeks against the same weeks in earlier years — supply only, not a price signal or a forecast.
Volume Trend —
Daily supply as a 7-day average, by source. Heavy or light for the season is Volume vs Normal, above.
USDA AMS Specialty Crops Movement, bell pepper. Weekends carry no reported movement after December 2024.
Truck Freight
Freight Rate Cycle
What a reefer load has cost from each origin to this market, over time — brokers' fees included. Today's rates are on Today's View.
Source: USDA AMS Specialty Crops National Truck Rate Report (FVWTRK), rates as of 2026-10-12.
Sources and lag. Prices are USDA AMS Shipping Point (FOB) reports, covering 2 Jan 2020 – 16 Oct 2026. The latest FOB report is dated 16 Oct 2026; movement is current through the same date. USDA does not quote every district/pack combination every day, so day-over-day compares each series against its own most recent prior quote and labels the gap in days rather than assuming yesterday.
Data normalization. Four schema inconsistencies in the USDA export are corrected: pepper color moved from the
Known gaps. Canada has no Shipping Point price coverage — terminal-market data is the only route to Ontario greenhouse pricing and has not been loaded yet, so Canadian pricing is blank by design rather than by omission. Movement data covers every tracked commodity, not bell pepper alone. Domestic movement files a day behind the import feed, so the crossings snapshot is dated to the last day on which every reporting source had actually filed. Weather, current terminal pricing and the port-by-port crossings tables all live on Today's View only.
Disclaimer. Built from public data published by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service. Peripheral Produce is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of the USDA or any government agency. Figures are shown for general market information only. They are not an offer or solicitation to buy or sell, not a substitute for a broker's quote, and not a guarantee of any price you will be able to transact at. Prices are as reported by USDA on the dates shown; no warranty is given as to accuracy, completeness, or timeliness, and Peripheral Produce accepts no liability for decisions made in reliance on them.
Other sources. Weather forecasts from the US National Weather Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and ECMWF open data (CC BY 4.0; rain amounts for every region). Weather history from NOAA GHCN-Daily (public domain); Yuma heat units from Arizona Meteorological Network (AZMet) data, University of Arizona; Canadian heat units from Environment and Climate Change Canada daily climate records (contains information licenced under the Data Server End-use Licence of Environment and Climate Change Canada); Mexican heat units from daily station records of the Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN), Comisión Nacional del Agua (CONAGUA). Live city lookups from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0) and OpenStreetMap place search (© OpenStreetMap contributors). Headlines are aggregated via Google News RSS and link to the publisher; headline, source and link only, no article text is fetched or stored.
© 2026 Peripheral Produce. All rights reserved. USDA source data is in the public domain; the analysis, derived figures, and presentation here are not.
Data normalization. Four schema inconsistencies in the USDA export are corrected: pepper color moved from the
variety column (2020) to properties (2021+) and changed capitalization mid-2024; district names were
renamed over time (Santa Maria ↔ Santa Maria District; five Imperial/Coachella variants), so raw districts map to stable regions
with the original string preserved; size labels were uppercase in 2020 only. Without these, roughly two-thirds of the history
silently disappears from any filtered series. Fourth: chile peppers crossing at Nogales were quoted
per pound through May 2025 and per carton from December 2025, with the package column reading
“1 1/9 bushel cartons” throughout — the per-pound era is converted at that pack’s 25 lb weight so one
line means one thing end to end.
Known gaps. Canada has no Shipping Point price coverage — terminal-market data is the only route to Ontario greenhouse pricing and has not been loaded yet, so Canadian pricing is blank by design rather than by omission. Movement data covers every tracked commodity, not bell pepper alone. Domestic movement files a day behind the import feed, so the crossings snapshot is dated to the last day on which every reporting source had actually filed. Weather, current terminal pricing and the port-by-port crossings tables all live on Today's View only.
Disclaimer. Built from public data published by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service. Peripheral Produce is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of the USDA or any government agency. Figures are shown for general market information only. They are not an offer or solicitation to buy or sell, not a substitute for a broker's quote, and not a guarantee of any price you will be able to transact at. Prices are as reported by USDA on the dates shown; no warranty is given as to accuracy, completeness, or timeliness, and Peripheral Produce accepts no liability for decisions made in reliance on them.
Other sources. Weather forecasts from the US National Weather Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and ECMWF open data (CC BY 4.0; rain amounts for every region). Weather history from NOAA GHCN-Daily (public domain); Yuma heat units from Arizona Meteorological Network (AZMet) data, University of Arizona; Canadian heat units from Environment and Climate Change Canada daily climate records (contains information licenced under the Data Server End-use Licence of Environment and Climate Change Canada); Mexican heat units from daily station records of the Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN), Comisión Nacional del Agua (CONAGUA). Live city lookups from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0) and OpenStreetMap place search (© OpenStreetMap contributors). Headlines are aggregated via Google News RSS and link to the publisher; headline, source and link only, no article text is fetched or stored.
© 2026 Peripheral Produce. All rights reserved. USDA source data is in the public domain; the analysis, derived figures, and presentation here are not.