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Strip loin, bone-in, 1x1

USDA’s daily wholesale price for strip loin, bone-in, 1x1 (IMPS 175, fat limitation 3: 1/8 inch average fat, 1/4 inch at most), sold by packers in boxes on negotiated deals. Stores often sell it as New York strip. The latest Choice price, for Oct 29, 2026, is $7.88 per hundredweight, or $7.88 a pound.

Choice
$7.88/lb +6.6%
Select, Tue, Oct 27
$6.59/lb
Pounds sold
8,733
Trades
3

Is today’s price high or low? · On the low side

Higher than on 35 of the other 112 days it traded in the past year.

Lowest of the yearHighest of the year

A year earlier (Oct 29, 2025) it was $8.13 per hundredweight; today’s price is −3.1% against that. Over the past year it traded on 113 days, averaging $8.29, from a low of $6.84 (Dec 31, 2025) to a high of $9.53 (Apr 20, 2026). In a usual year (2020–2025) it runs highest in May (+19.1% against its own year’s average) and lowest in October (−15.5%).

GradeLast tradedPer cwtPer lbRange, per cwtPoundsChange
ChoiceThu, Oct 29$7.88$7.88$7.84–$8.258,733+$48.77 since Wed, Oct 28
SelectTue, Oct 27$6.59$6.59$6.49–$6.7239,385+$68.04 since Tue, Oct 6

Every week on record Jan 2, 2020 to Oct 29, 2026

$9.82$3.31
  • Choice
  • Select
  • Weekly average, dollars per hundredweight

Each point is the average of the week’s daily prices. Gaps are stretches of three weeks or more with no sales. On record since Jan 2, 2020: 886 days with a price.

Average Choice price by month $ per lb

YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
20267.217.879.028.869.058.857.257.707.847.95··8.16
20256.937.277.898.468.898.987.797.046.877.347.937.207.72
20246.216.477.357.218.268.686.925.735.496.186.036.166.73
20236.537.096.286.987.018.556.545.905.105.026.106.146.44
20225.745.785.816.226.406.797.536.864.904.594.594.535.81
20214.846.296.157.488.527.065.596.225.675.375.425.156.15
20204.324.465.376.068.995.814.895.275.984.414.484.805.40

Each month is weighted by the pounds sold on each day. A dot is a month with no sales on record.

Its usual year Each month against its own year’s average, the median over 2020–2025

  1. Jan−8.9%
  2. Feb−2.2%
  3. Mar±0.0%
  4. Apr+9.1%
  5. May+19.1%
  6. Jun+16.6%
  7. Jul+1.2%
  8. Aug−5.4%
  9. Sep−13.3%
  10. Oct−15.5%
  11. Nov−11.1%
  12. Dec−9.7%

Day by day The last 20 days it traded

DayChoice, per cwtPer lbPoundsSelect, per cwtPer lbPounds
Oct 29, 2026$7.88$7.888,733———
Oct 28, 2026$7.40$7.4093,754———
Oct 27, 2026$8.43$8.431,725$6.59$6.5939,385
Oct 23, 2026$7.79$7.792,796———
Oct 22, 2026$7.77$7.7745,765———
Oct 20, 2026$7.79$7.7916,548———
Oct 19, 2026$7.78$7.785,916———
Oct 15, 2026$7.72$7.72102,195———
Oct 13, 2026$8.34$8.3417,669———
Oct 12, 2026$8.39$8.3945,538———
Oct 8, 2026$8.50$8.5012,750———
Oct 6, 2026$8.37$8.37117,714$5.91$5.91271,458
Oct 1, 2026$8.75$8.755,814———
Sep 28, 2026$8.45$8.4550,241———
Sep 22, 2026$8.38$8.3811,054———
Sep 15, 2026$8.51$8.514,409———
Sep 11, 2026$8.33$8.332,512———
Sep 9, 2026$8.20$8.206,421———
Sep 8, 2026$8.16$8.1651,024———
Sep 3, 2026$7.45$7.45173,458———

Every day is in the CSV downloads, with the day’s low and high and the number of trades.

Other cuts from the loin today Dearest first, per pound

CutPer lbGrade
Tenderloin, trimmed, heavy$16.07Choice
Butt tender, trimmed$15.32Choice
Strip loin, boneless, 0x1$9.14Choice
Short loin, 0x1$8.19Choice
Strip loin, bone-in, 1x1$7.88Choice
Bottom sirloin flap$7.25Choice
Tri-tip, peeled$6.81Choice
Top sirloin butt, center cut$6.81Choice
Ball tip, boneless, heavy$5.45Choice
Top sirloin butt, boneless$4.97Choice
Tri-tip$4.67Choice

The loin primal as a whole was worth $4.47 per hundredweight (Choice) on Thursday, Oct 29, 2026: its page.

About these numbers

Prices are USDA’s, from the National Daily Boxed Beef Cutout and Boxed Beef Cuts, Negotiated Sales afternoon report (LM_XB403): the weighted average of the day’s negotiated sales of boxed beef, FOB the packing plant, for delivery within 0 to 21 days, in dollars per hundredweight (100 lb). Divide by 100 for the price per pound. These are wholesale prices for whole cuts in boxes, well below what the same cut costs at a store. USDA lists this item as “Loin, strip loin, 1x1 (175 3)”. The latest report is for Oct 29, 2026; the next is due Fri, Oct 30, 2026.

The beef price board has every cut for today, the cutout, how the data is collected, and the whole history as CSV downloads. Source: USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, Livestock, Poultry and Grain Market News.