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Boneless center-cut pork loin, strap off, with added ingredients

USDA’s daily wholesale price for boneless center-cut pork loin, strap off, with added ingredients, sold by packers on negotiated deals, FOB the plant. The latest price, for Oct 29, 2026, is $1.45 per hundredweight, or $1.45 a pound.

Price
$1.45/lb +0.5%
Per cwt
$1.45
Day’s range
$1.44–$1.48
Pounds sold
37,306

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

Higher than on 4 of the other 213 days it traded in the past year.

Lowest of the yearHighest of the year

A year earlier (Oct 29, 2025) it was $1.58 per hundredweight; today’s is −8.1% against that. Over the past year it traded on 214 days, averaging $1.61, from a low of $1.36 (Jul 24, 2026) to a high of $2.40 (Sep 23, 2026). In a usual year (2020–2025) it runs highest in June (+4.5% against its own year’s average) and lowest in December (−7.8%).

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

$3.21$1.18
  • Price
  • 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: 1,559 days with a price.

Average price by month $ per lb

YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
20261.571.581.601.571.581.571.501.611.681.57··1.58
20251.561.601.631.611.581.591.591.581.621.551.571.551.59
20241.631.641.651.721.771.801.771.721.741.681.551.541.68
20231.471.481.501.431.501.571.661.571.401.561.631.641.53
20221.361.541.571.571.551.541.571.681.741.701.521.461.57
20211.331.381.381.421.561.791.671.771.841.721.591.311.56
20201.331.161.281.842.471.751.231.291.311.401.261.311.47

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−6.9%
  2. Feb−3.1%
  3. Mar−2.2%
  4. Apr+0.8%
  5. May−0.3%
  6. Jun+4.5%
  7. Jul+2.7%
  8. Aug+2.3%
  9. Sep+2.8%
  10. Oct+0.6%
  11. Nov−2.1%
  12. Dec−7.8%

Day by day The last 20 days it traded

DayPer cwtPer lbRange, per cwtPounds
Oct 29, 2026$1.45$1.45$1.44–$1.4837,306
Oct 28, 2026$1.45$1.45$1.44–$1.9674,431
Oct 27, 2026$1.60$1.60$1.41–$2.0010,163
Oct 26, 2026$1.49$1.49$1.46–$1.9624,590
Oct 22, 2026$1.47$1.47$1.35–$1.508,281
Oct 20, 2026$1.56$1.56$1.35–$2.0913,801
Oct 19, 2026$1.64$1.64$1.46–$2.0015,307
Oct 15, 2026$1.48$1.48$1.35–$1.5047,969
Oct 14, 2026$1.75$1.75$1.49–$2.6584,481
Oct 13, 2026$1.85$1.85$1.51–$2.008,866
Oct 12, 2026$1.57$1.57$1.51–$1.9618,903
Oct 9, 2026$1.53$1.53$1.51–$1.559,368
Oct 8, 2026$1.52$1.52$1.49–$1.5515,223
Oct 6, 2026$1.89$1.89$1.49–$1.9615,432
Oct 5, 2026$1.69$1.69$1.45–$1.962,490
Oct 2, 2026$1.51$1.51$1.44–$1.5523,052
Oct 1, 2026$1.53$1.53$1.46–$1.5515,229
Sep 30, 2026$1.55$1.55$1.51–$1.9694,890
Sep 29, 2026$2.19$2.19$1.46–$2.6569,401
Sep 28, 2026$1.60$1.60$1.51–$1.9616,436

Every day is in the CSV downloads.

About these numbers

Prices are USDA’s, from the National Daily Pork FOB Plant, Negotiated Sales afternoon report (LM_PK602): the weighted average of the day’s negotiated sales, FOB the packing plant, in dollars per hundredweight (100 lb). Divide by 100 for the price per pound. These are wholesale prices, well below what the same cut costs at a store. USDA lists this item as “AI Bnls CC Strap Off”. The latest report is for Oct 29, 2026; the next is due Fri, Oct 30, 2026.

The pork board has every cut for today, the cutout, the primals and the whole history as CSV downloads. Source: USDA Agricultural Marketing Service.