5th percentile, mean, and 95th percentile organic to conventional price ratios each month during the 2011–2013 period for apples, blueberries, oranges, and strawberries.

Prices depicted in this graph are monthly national averages that are not weighted by sampled household projection factors. Hallam [61] found organic price premiums of 20 to 30% in OECD countries in the early 2000s. USDA-ERS [62] also analyzed prices for 18 fruits with 2005 data and found that the organic premium was less than 30% for most items. Blueberries were the anomaly; its price premium exceeded 100%.