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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.
US, Chicago
Weekly prices of Butter
Butter, Grade AA
US $ per lb US $ per ton ± on prev. price € per ton ± on prev. price
Friday 9 Dec 2022
2,8125 6.201 -3,02% 5.895 -3,62%
Friday 2 Dec 2022
2,9000 6.393 -1,61% 6.116 -2,00%
Friday 25 Nov 2022
2,9475 6.498 +4,89% 6.240 +3,95%
Friday 18 Nov 2022
2,8100 6.195 -3,27% 6.004 -6,69%
Friday 11 Nov 2022
2,9050 6.404 +4,78% 6.434 +2,66%
Friday 4 Nov 2022
2,7725 6.112 -11,70% 6.267 -9,13%
Friday 28 Oct 2022
3,1400 6.923 -1,88% 6.897 -4,08%
Friday 21 Oct 2022
3,2000 7.055 +0,79% 7.191 +0,05%
Friday 14 Oct 2022
3,1750 7.000 -1,32% 7.187 -0,09%
Friday 7 Oct 2022
3,2175 7.093 +2,31% 7.194 +0,71%
Source: CME (Grade AA)
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
Butter, Grade AA 		OCEANIA
Butter, 82% Butterfat		 GERMANY
Deutsche Markenbutter, lose
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 % on prev. month % on 2021 2022 % on prev. month % on 2021 2022 % on prev. month % on 2021
January 3.910 3.503 4.781 4.914 4.766 4.956 4.193 2.971 6.031 +25,31% +103,01% 5.963 +2,80% +28,92% 6.613 +4,82% +60,35%
February 3.999 3.821 4.582 4.711 4.631 5.013 3.920 3.132 5.805 -3,75% +85,35% 6.413 +7,55% +28,57% 6.713 +1,51% +52,39%
March 4.233 3.791 4.354 4.700 4.859 5.007 3.809 3.773 6.016 +3,63% +59,46% 6.900 +7,60% +22,80% 7.148 +6,48% +48,14%
April 4.266 3.930 4.542 4.619 5.098 5.005 2.679 4.011 5.992 -0,39% +49,38% 6.888 -0,18% +19,87% 7.760 +8,56% +61,19%
May 4.798 4.278 4.532 5.018 5.237 5.159 3.252 4.037 6.103 +1,84% +51,16% 6.200 -9,98% +21,42% 7.476 -3,65% +55,34%
June 4.978 4.205 4.967 5.623 5.149 5.270 4.084 3.897 6.473 +6,07% +66,12% 6.063 -2,22% +29,16% 7.603 +1,70% +58,25%
July 5.419 4.253 5.018 5.782 4.914 5.283 3.728 3.717 6.529 +0,86% +75,65% 5.756 -5,05% +27,74% 7.086 -6,80% +56,50%
August 5.749 4.831 4.832 5.889 5.039 5.023 3.295 3.686 6.596 +1,03% +78,95% 5.313 -7,71% +14,71% 7.020 -0,93% +51,79%
September 6.589 5.991 4.413 5.368 4.971 4.772 3.347 3.913 6.914 +4,82% +76,68% 5.342 +0,55% +11,28% 6.967 -0,75% +42,29%
October 5.027 5.559 4.034 5.163 4.978 4.660 3.200 3.976 7.018 +1,50% +76,50% 4.981 -6,75% +0,63% 6.745 -3,19% +20,02%
November 4.390 6.369 4.398 4.919 4.978 4.501 3.051 4.367 6.302 -10,19% +44,34% 4.856 -2,51% -13,76% 6.290 -6,74% +3,49%
December 3.891 4.974 4.830 4.880 4.861 4.362 3.274 4.813 6.297 -0,09% +30,84% 4.775 -1,67% -17,67% 6.023 -4,25% -4,54%
Average* 4.771 4.625 4.607 5.132 4.957 4.918 3.486 3.858 6.340 5.787 6.954
Change (1) +38,95% -3,05% -0,40% +11,40% -3,42% -0,79% -29,11% +10,67% +64,34% +13,67% +39,44%
Monthly Average (December) Including Duty (1.541 US $/ton) 6.316* 7.564
Monthly Average (December) with an additional duty of 514 US $/Ton (2.055 US $/ton) 6.830* 8.078
Source: CME (Grade AA)
* Arithmetic Average
1) change from the same period of previous year
* excl. Australia
NOTE: Conversion in US$ of monthly average price of German Butter is calculated using the average exchange rate of the reference month.
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