Commercial potatoes are produced on another 160,000 acres. Increasing irrigation opportunities are moving potato production areas westward in the state. Carrot acreage has increased steadily over the past three years. There are currently four cooperatives producing carrots in the Red River Valley. About two thirds of those production acres are in North Dakota.
Onions are also a vegetable crop that has shown steady increases in acreage in recent years.
Other specialty crops are grown in the state as well. Many of these crops fall in to other categories as well, but are currently low acreage efforts and as such are treated separately. Crops such as lentils, lupines, field peas, and chickpeas are covered here.