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Cheddar cheese, Oceania
This page contains the wholesale prices for Oceania-produced Cheddar (39% maximum moisture). Prices are recorded fortnightly.

The cheese prices recorded over the last ten weeks are listed in the table, while the graphs below illustrates price trends in € and in local currency. Furthermore, time series are available for monthly average prices of last six years.

The graph below compares prices for Oceania-produced Cheddar and German Edamer over a given period.
Survey Date
Oceania
Fortnightly prices of Cheddar Cheese
39% maximum moisture
US $ per ton € per ton
min / max ± on prev. price min / max ± on prev. price
Friday 2 Apr 2021
4.300 / 4.500 0,00% 3.661 / 3.831 +1,23%
Friday 19 Mar 2021
4.300 / 4.500 +1,44% 3.616 / 3.784 +1,84%
Friday 5 Mar 2021
4.250 / 4.425 +1,46% 3.560 / 3.707 +3,17%
Friday 19 Feb 2021
4.250 / 4.300 +2,09% 3.501 / 3.542 +0,78%
Friday 5 Feb 2021
4.125 / 4.250 +3,40% 3.442 / 3.547 +4,91%
Friday 22 Jan 2021
4.000 / 4.100 -0,61% 3.290 / 3.372 +0,14%
Friday 8 Jan 2021
4.050 / 4.100 +4,49% 3.306 / 3.347 +4,45%
Friday 18 Dec 2020
3.875 / 3.925 +3,31% 3.164 / 3.205 +2,58%
Friday 4 Dec 2020
3.700 / 3.850 +4,50% 3.043 / 3.166 +1,69%
Friday 20 Nov 2020
3.575 / 3.650 -5,25% 3.021 / 3.085 -5,06%
Source: USDA AMS Dairy Markets News; price of 2013-10-11 processed by CLAL
Informative note
NOTE: The conversion US $ / € for each quotation is calculated using the exchange rate of the previous day.

Prices are U.S. $/MT (Metric Ton= 2,204.6 pounds) F.O.B. port. Information gathered for this report is from trades, offers to sell, and secondary data.
USD
$/ton OCEANIA
Cheddar Cheese 		US
Cheese (40# Blocks)
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 % on prev. month % on 2020 2021 % on prev. month % on 2020
January 4.000 4.900 3.700 3.069 3.756 3.413 3.463 4.008 4.063 +5,86% +1,35% 3.784 +6,99% -10,95%
February 4.000 5.225 3.700 2.988 3.825 3.644 3.525 4.431 4.231 +4,15% -4,51% 3.501 -7,48% -12,26%
March 4.167 5.100 3.588 2.650 3.688 3.700 3.946 4.356 4.369 +3,25% +0,29% 3.876 +10,70% -0,25%
April 4.500 4.875 3.525 2.575 3.438 3.788 4.288 4.475 4.400 +0,72% -1,68% 3.974 +2,52% +68,16%
May 4.600 4.600 3.483 2.588 3.619 4.094 4.731 4.069
June 4.488 4.650 3.413 2.825 3.900 3.981 3.944 3.875
July 4.338 4.513 3.213 2.844 4.031 3.700 3.856 3.838
August 4.392 4.217 2.956 3.119 4.006 3.713 3.938 3.531
September 4.450 3.975 3.000 3.504 4.100 3.619 3.875 3.600
October 4.425 3.975 3.167 3.631 4.125 3.513 3.763 3.800
November 4.525 3.850 3.150 3.613 4.044 3.375 3.669 3.713
December 4.825 3.725 3.150 3.725 3.594 3.238 3.956 3.838
Average* 4.392 4.467 3.337 3.094 3.844 3.648 3.913 3.961 4.266 3.784
Change (1) +14,77% +1,70% -25,30% -7,28% +24,23% -5,09% +7,26% +1,24% -1,21% +4,46%
* Arithmetic Average
1) change from the same period of previous year
  = min price
  = max price