Summer’s bounty: U.S. production of seven popular pie ingredients nears $7 billion

As the summer season arrives, the abundance of U.S.-grown produce makes it the perfect time to enjoy fruit pies and other desserts that highlight their flavor profiles. In 2024, the United States grew $6.9 billion worth of seven popular fruits, vegetables, and tree nuts often used as the main ingredient in pie making. The value of production of these seven commodities in 2024, as measured by U.S. cash receipts, was the highest for apples, which are produced abundantly in the United States both in terms of volume and production value. The U.S. apple crop exceeded $2.9 billion in 2024, whereas production of blueberries approached $1.2 billion. Cash receipts for other fruit pie ingredients, cherries and peaches, were valued at $859 million and $926 million, respectively. Pecans, a tree nut, were valued at $468 million in terms of U.S. cash receipts. The pear crop of 2024 was valued at $301 million, while production of pumpkins, the fall icon and mainstay of the holiday table, was valued at $274 million. For more data on specialty crop production, see USDA, Economic Research Service’s Fruit and Tree Nuts and Vegetable and Pulses Yearbook Tables.