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Cheese (40# Blocks), US
This page contains the wholesale prices for US-produced Cheddar (40# block), as recorded weekly by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME).

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.

The graphs below compare prices for Cheddar in the US and in Oceania, in dollars, over a given period.
US, Chicago
Weekly prices of Cheese (40# Blocks)
US $ per lb US $ per ton ± on prev. price € per ton ± on prev. price
Friday 12 Aug 2022
1,8450 4.068 +3,36% 3.935 +1,79%
Friday 5 Aug 2022
1,7850 3.935 -5,05% 3.865 -5,60%
Friday 29 Jul 2022
1,8800 4.145 -1,57% 4.095 -0,82%
Friday 22 Jul 2022
1,9100 4.211 -4,26% 4.129 -6,08%
Friday 15 Jul 2022
1,9950 4.398 -5,45% 4.396 -3,80%
Friday 8 Jul 2022
2,1100 4.652 -2,88% 4.570 -0,90%
Friday 1 Jul 2022
2,1725 4.790 +3,95% 4.611 +5,01%
Friday 24 Jun 2022
2,0900 4.608 -2,56% 4.391 -3,43%
Friday 17 Jun 2022
2,1450 4.729 -4,88% 4.547 -1,74%
Friday 10 Jun 2022
2,2550 4.971 -0,66% 4.628 -1,13%
Source: Midwest up until 2002; CME from 2003 (40# Blocks)
Informative note
NOTE: The conversion US $ / € for each quotation is calculated using the exchange rate of the previous day.
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$/ton US
Cheese (40# Blocks) 		OCEANIA
Cheddar Cheese
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 % on prev. month % on 2021 2022 % on prev. month % on 2021
January 4.913 3.370 3.238 3.737 3.300 3.096 4.249 3.784 4.141 -0,76% +9,42% 5.569 +7,48% +37,08%
February 4.807 3.392 3.267 3.585 3.311 3.419 3.990 3.501 4.266 +3,03% +21,84% 5.638 +1,23% +33,23%
March 5.218 3.423 3.307 3.186 3.435 3.492 3.886 3.876 4.820 +12,98% +24,35% 6.163 +9,31% +41,06%
April 4.966 3.496 3.135 3.285 3.544 3.669 2.363 3.958 5.181 +7,49% +30,88% 6.246 +1,35% +41,28%
May 4.450 3.610 2.910 3.658 3.570 3.694 3.729 3.622 5.135 -0,88% +41,76% 5.963 -4,54% +35,13%
June 4.464 3.753 3.275 3.532 3.473 3.978 5.676 3.297 4.828 -5,98% +46,43% 5.356 -10,17% +22,25%
July 4.373 3.705 3.684 3.687 3.380 3.989 5.751 3.578 4.439 -8,06% +24,06% 5.194 -3,03% +24,22%
August 4.812 3.793 3.968 3.773 3.594 4.135 3.859 3.797 4.001 -9,86% +5,37% 5.063 -2,53% +21,80%
September 5.197 3.678 3.586 3.589 3.634 4.524 5.221 3.872
October 4.813 3.680 3.572 3.789 3.457 4.510 5.967 3.935
November 4.164 3.566 4.164 3.668 3.084 4.350 4.181 3.886
December 3.485 3.225 3.823 3.351 3.074 4.110 3.537 4.172
Average* 4.639 3.558 3.494 3.570 3.405 3.914 4.367 3.773 4.601 5.649
Change (1) +18,91% -23,30% -1,78% +2,17% -4,63% +14,95% +11,59% -13,60% +25,14% +32,08%
* Arithmetic Average
1) change from the same period of previous year
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