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Butter, US
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 below illustrates price trends over the past three years in € and in local currency Furthermore, time series are available for monthly average prices of last nine 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
US, Chicago
Weekly prices of Butter
Butter, Grade AA
US $ per lb US $ per ton ± on prev. price € per ton ± on prev. price
Friday 22 Jan 2021
1,4025 3.092 +8,72% 2.543 +8,42%
Friday 15 Jan 2021
1,2900 2.844 -6,52% 2.346 -5,35%
Friday 8 Jan 2021
1,3800 3.042 -2,82% 2.478 -2,86%
Friday 1 Jan 2021
1,4200 3.131 -6,89% 2.551 -7,48%
Friday 25 Dec 2020
1,5250 3.362 +4,81% 2.757 +5,27%
Friday 18 Dec 2020
1,4550 3.208 -1,69% 2.619 -2,74%
Friday 11 Dec 2020
1,4800 3.263 0,00% 2.693 +0,30%
Friday 4 Dec 2020
1,4800 3.263 +8,82% 2.685 +6,58%
Friday 27 Nov 2020
1,3600 2.998 +1,12% 2.520 +0,54%
Friday 20 Nov 2020
1,3450 2.965 -3,93% 2.506 -4,26%
Source: CME (Grade AA)
Informative note
NOTE: The conversion US $ / € for each quotation is calculated using the exchange rate of the previous day.

USD
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$/ton US
Butter, Grade AA 		OCEANIA
Butter, 82% Butterfat		 GERMANY
Deutsche Markenbutter, lose
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 % on prev. month % on 2020 2021 % on prev. month % on 2020 2021 % on prev. month % on 2020
January 3.288 3.910 3.503 4.781 4.914 4.766 4.956 4.193 3.027 -7,53% -27,81% 4.625 +13,67% +14,43% 4.104 +0,86% +1,83%
February 3.475 3.999 3.821 4.582 4.711 4.631 5.013 3.920
March 3.609 4.233 3.791 4.354 4.700 4.859 5.007 3.809
April 3.818 4.266 3.930 4.542 4.619 5.098 5.005 2.679
May 3.512 4.798 4.278 4.532 5.018 5.237 5.159 3.252
June 3.311 4.978 4.205 4.967 5.623 5.149 5.270 4.084
July 3.256 5.419 4.253 5.018 5.782 4.914 5.283 3.728
August 3.104 5.749 4.831 4.832 5.889 5.039 5.023 3.295
September 3.401 6.589 5.991 4.413 5.368 4.971 4.772 3.347
October 3.370 5.027 5.559 4.034 5.163 4.978 4.660 3.200
November 3.559 4.390 6.369 4.398 4.919 4.978 4.501 3.051
December 3.498 3.891 4.974 4.830 4.880 4.861 4.362 3.274
Average* 3.433 4.771 4.625 4.607 5.132 4.957 4.918 3.486 3.027 4.625 4.104
Change (1) -2,67% +38,95% -3,05% -0,40% +11,40% -3,42% -0,79% -29,11% -27,81% +14,43% +1,83%
Monthly Average (January) Including Duty (1.541 US $/ton) 6.166* 5.645
Monthly Average (January) with an additional duty of 514 US $/Ton (2.055 US $/ton) 6.680* 6.159
Source: CME (Grade AA)
* Arithmetic Average
1) change from the same period of previous year
* excl. Australia
NOTE: Conversion in US$ of monthly average price of German Butter is calculated using the average exchange rate of the reference month.
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