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Butter, USA
This page contains the average wholesale prices for Butter (Butter, Grade AA) produced in the United States.
Prices are recorded weekly by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME).

The average Butter prices recorded over the last ten weeks are listed in the table, while the graph to the side illustrates price trends over the last three years. Furthermore, time series are available for monthly average prices of last six years.

The graphs below compare:
  • prices for Butter in the United States with the volume of Stock over a given period;
  • prices for Butter in the United States, Germany and Oceania over a given period;
  • prices for Butter and Skimmed Milk Powder in the United States.
Survey Date
USA, Chicago
Weekly prices of Butter
Butter, Grade AA
US $ per lb US $ per ton ± on prev. price € per ton ± on prev. price
Friday 7 Jul 2017
2,5850 5.699 -2,18% 5.006 -1,94%
Friday 30 Jun 2017
2,6425 5.826 +2,03% 5.104 -0,15%
Friday 23 Jun 2017
2,5900 5.710 +1,17% 5.112 +1,14%
Friday 16 Jun 2017
2,5600 5.644 +3,43% 5.055 +4,02%
Friday 9 Jun 2017
2,4750 5.456 -0,40% 4.859 -0,49%
Friday 2 Jun 2017
2,4850 5.479 +5,30% 4.883 +5,25%
Friday 26 May 2017
2,3600 5.203 -0,63% 4.640 -1,38%
Friday 19 May 2017
2,3750 5.236 +4,97% 4.705 +2,44%
Friday 12 May 2017
2,2625 4.988 +7,35% 4.593 +8,02%
Friday 5 May 2017
2,1075 4.646 +0,12% 4.252 -0,30%
NOTE: The conversion US $ / € for each quotation is calculated using the exchange rate of the previous day.

Source: CME (Grade AA)
 
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$/ton USA
Butter, Grade AA		 OCEANIA
Butter, 82% Butterfat		 GERMANY
Deutsche Markenbutter, lose
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 % on prev. month % on 2016 2017 % on prev. month % on 2016 2017 % on prev. month % on 2016
January 3.493 3.288 3.910 3.503 4.781 4.914 +1,72% +2,77% 4.406 +1,00% +43,88% 4.538 -2,18% +48,00%
February 3.173 3.475 3.999 3.821 4.582 4.711 -4,12% +2,83% 4.463 +1,28% +47,52% 4.324 -4,72% +46,53%
March 3.263 3.609 4.233 3.791 4.354 4.700 -0,23% +7,95% 4.875 +9,24% +73,33% 4.520 +4,53% +66,20%
April 3.102 3.818 4.266 3.930 4.542 4.619 -1,74% +1,70% 5.106 +4,74% +90,30% 4.731 +4,69% +70,31%
May 2.961 3.512 4.798 4.278 4.532 5.018 +8,65% +10,73% 5.125 +0,37% +96,17% 5.507 +16,39% +93,09%
June 3.265 3.311 4.978 4.205 4.967 5.623 +12,05% +13,20% 5.738 +11,95% +108,64% 6.583 +19,55% +101,12%
July 3.496 3.256 5.419 4.253 5.018 5.699 +1,35% +13,58% 5.925 +3,27% +104,75% 7.054 +7,15% +95,71%
August 3.912 3.104 5.749 4.831 4.832
September 4.164 3.401 6.589 5.991 4.413
October 4.167 3.370 5.027 5.559 4.034
November 3.908 3.559 4.390 6.369 4.398
December 3.428 3.498 3.891 4.974 4.830
Arithmetic average 3.532 3.434 4.778 4.615 4.614 4.976 5.016 4.981
± on previous year 1 -2,77% +39,13% -3,43% -0,01% +6,13% +77,61% +68,70%
Monthly Average (July) Including Duty (1.541 US $/ton) 7.466* 8.595
Monthly Average (July) with an additional duty of 514 US $/Ton (2.055 US $/ton) 7.980* 9.109
1 change from the same period of previous year
* excl. Australia
NOTE: Conversion in US$ of monthly average price of German Butter is calculated using the average exchange rate of the reference month.
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