# 25 lb sacks onion prices A 25 lb sack of onions costs mostly $12.00-13.00 FOB at the shipping point, red jumbo out of Washington, as of Aug 28, 2026, per USDA shipping-point reports. _Data through Aug 28, 2026 · source last checked Aug 31, 2026 · page revised Aug 31, 2026_ > Mostly $12.00-13.00 per 25 lb sack, 19% above the 5-yr median. Comparison midpoint: $12.50. Washington red jumbo 25-lb sacks mostly $12.00-13.00 FOB, up 78.6% year-over-year and 19% above the 5-year median. The past month saw prices slip 7.4%. ## The numbers | Period | Current | Prior | Change | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Week over week | $12.50 | $12.50 | 0.0% | | Month over month | $12.50 | $13.50 | -7.4% | | Year over year | $12.50 | $7.00 | +78.6% | | vs 5-yr median | $12.50 | $10.50 | +19.0% | ## About 25 lb sacks onion prices The 25-lb sack is the half-size wholesale pack, and it exists because not every buyer can turn a fifty-pound bag before the onions go soft. Smaller foodservice accounts, produce distributors serving independent grocers and the repack trade all take onions here. It is also the pack the red trade runs on: the red series USDA quotes most often at the storage origins are 25-lb sacks, not the 50s that anchor yellow, so this page is where a red price is most directly comparable across origins. One warning about the number above. A 25-lb sack does not cost half a 50-lb sack. Bagging, handling and freight cost close to the same per package either way, so the smaller pack carries more of that cost per pound. Divide both quotes by their weight before calling one of them cheaper. The same care applies to volume. A USDA shipping-point price is quoted per package, so every figure on this page is dollars for one 25-lb sack, and USDA reports movement in units of 10,000 pounds, which is 400 twenty-five-pound sacks to the unit rather than the 200 a 50-lb sack gives. A day's movement that reads the same on two origin pages therefore means twice as many packages when the crop is moving in 25s. That matters most on red, which is the trade this pack largely serves. ## Common questions ### How much does a 25 lb sack of onions cost? mostly $12.00-13.00 FOB at the shipping point, for red jumbo out of Washington, as of Aug 28, 2026 (USDA). That is a wholesale price for the onions loaded on a truck at the packing shed, before freight, and it is not a retail price: a grocery shelf adds haul, handling, the retailer's margin and shrink on top. The chart above compares the quote across origins. ## About this data - Source: USDA AMS shipping-point onion FOB reports (FV130) - Series: Onions by pack: 25 lb sacks - Basis: FOB shipping point, low-high range - Geography: Across US growing origins - Unit: $/25 lb sack - Last observation: Aug 28, 2026 - Update frequency: USDA reports on business days --- Cite: 25 lb sacks benchmark onion FOB prices are 19% above the five-year median for the corresponding calendar week (USDA shipping-point reports). Know Your Onions, data through Aug 28, 2026. https://knowyouronions.news/pack/25-lb-sacks Canonical URL: https://knowyouronions.news/pack/25-lb-sacks