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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 17 Sep 2021
1,7900 3.946 +0,28% 3.355 +0,92%
Friday 10 Sep 2021
1,7850 3.935 -0,70% 3.324 -0,63%
Friday 3 Sep 2021
1,7975 3.963 +5,27% 3.345 +4,57%
Friday 27 Aug 2021
1,7075 3.764 +2,71% 3.199 +2,09%
Friday 20 Aug 2021
1,6625 3.665 -0,45% 3.134 -0,08%
Friday 13 Aug 2021
1,6700 3.682 +1,37% 3.136 +2,32%
Friday 6 Aug 2021
1,6475 3.632 +0,30% 3.065 +0,50%
Friday 30 Jul 2021
1,6425 3.621 -3,10% 3.050 -3,90%
Friday 23 Jul 2021
1,6950 3.737 +1,04% 3.174 +1,33%
Friday 16 Jul 2021
1,6775 3.698 +0,15% 3.132 +0,40%
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
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 2.971 -9,26% -29,15% 4.625 +13,67% +14,43% 4.124 +1,36% +2,32%
February 3.475 3.999 3.821 4.582 4.711 4.631 5.013 3.920 3.132 +5,43% -20,11% 4.988 +7,84% +19,64% 4.405 +6,81% +12,37%
March 3.609 4.233 3.791 4.354 4.700 4.859 5.007 3.809 3.773 +20,46% -0,94% 5.619 +12,66% +31,63% 4.825 +9,53% +24,61%
April 3.818 4.266 3.930 4.542 4.619 5.098 5.005 2.679 4.011 +6,33% +49,75% 5.746 +2,26% +34,41% 4.814 -0,23% +58,86%
May 3.512 4.798 4.278 4.532 5.018 5.237 5.159 3.252 4.037 +0,65% +24,15% 5.106 -11,13% +31,14% 4.813 -0,03% +53,22%
June 3.311 4.978 4.205 4.967 5.623 5.149 5.270 4.084 3.897 -3,48% -4,59% 4.694 -8,08% +29,04% 4.804 -0,18% +34,19%
July 3.256 5.419 4.253 5.018 5.782 4.914 5.283 3.728 3.717 -4,61% -0,30% 4.506 -3,99% +23,74% 4.528 -5,76% +15,49%
August 3.104 5.749 4.831 4.832 5.889 5.039 5.023 3.295 3.686 -0,84% +11,88% 4.631 +2,77% +34,73% 4.625 +2,14% +14,16%
September 3.401 6.589 5.991 4.413 5.368 4.971 4.772 3.347 3.948 +7,12% +17,96% 4.800 +3,64% +40,92% 4.829 +4,40% +17,53%
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 3.686 4.968 4.641
Change (1) -2,67% +38,95% -3,05% -0,40% +11,40% -3,42% -0,79% -29,11% +2,68% +28,60% +24,10%
Monthly Average (September) Including Duty (1.541 US $/ton) 6.341* 6.370
Monthly Average (September) with an additional duty of 514 US $/Ton (2.055 US $/ton) 6.855* 6.884
Source: CME (Grade AA)
* Arithmetic Average
1) change from the same period of previous year
* excl. Australia
NOTE: Conversion in US$ of monthly average price of German Butter is calculated using the average exchange rate of the reference month.
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