Question for the potato growers

What is a reasonable yield per acre for potatoes, assuming an average year and good soil fertility.

Thank you

You talking commercial growers or home gardener?
Commercial production,depending on what part of the country you're in,could be anywhere from 250 to 600 CWT per acre.

Commercial. So your saying 500-1200 50 pound bags per acre?

That's the national average. I live in Montcalm County,the largest potato growing county in Michigan. Yields are pretty impressive here. 25,000 to 35,000 pounds per acre.
Montcalm potato stats

Some of our boys over here in Idaho (Famous Potatoes!) must be pretty close to that number, if not more!

We can't grow them too well up here, but a little farther down south, they seem to grow those things like weeds... AMAZING!

Bryce

What does CWT stand for?

Hundred weight.

Table stock varieties like Red Norland & Yukon Gold can average 5-10x what you plant as seed.

rrlund, I am in Kalamzoo Co. Do you know how sensitive potato plants are to frost. I would like to plant soon, but we have frost danger up to middle May, or later !

Many years back my area was a big tater growing area . My uncles was one of the as you would say today a BTO . I spent many a days in the tater field from spring plowing thru harvest . The only job that i did not do was spraying or run the harvester . i remember the days of the one row digger then the new two row digger and the piles of bushel baskets and the old grainery up in the bank barn that was changed over to keep all the tater forks in to the day the vary first harvester arrived and the days of all the hired hands and bushel baskets gave way to self unloading wagons and trucks . We usually got around 8-9 ton on the old trucks per load and usually four trucks to the acre and sometimes if the weather was good then five and a bit . We started planting early if mothe nature would allow . Back then we would have already been plowing if the weather was with us . When it was wet and cold it would put us way behind and when we were able to get going then it was round the clock non stop plowing . Usually four or five tractors in the field as a couple neighbors would help . Up till 58 everything was done with crawlers then the 88 Oliver came on the seen and the first John Bean two row harvester . For us we tried to start planting around mid april .

I rode on a potato digger in Idaho. Six wide rows (38-40"?) were dug and elevated into a truck in one sweep. Seems like they were talking 40,000 pounds per acre from that field. It didn't take them long to fill a semi.

They build these right here locally in the county.