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Boneless center-cut pork loin, strap on

USDA’s daily wholesale price for boneless center-cut pork loin, strap on, sold by packers on negotiated deals, FOB the plant. Stores often sell it as boneless pork loin roast. The latest price, for Oct 29, 2026, is $1.23 per hundredweight, or $1.23 a pound.

Price
$1.23/lb +1.5%
Per cwt
$1.23
Day’s range
$1.13–$1.53
Pounds sold
225,612

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

Higher than on 13 of the other 254 days it traded in the past year.

Lowest of the yearHighest of the year

A year earlier (Oct 29, 2025) it was $1.33 per hundredweight; today’s is −7.5% against that. Over the past year it traded on 255 days, averaging $1.32, from a low of $1.20 (Oct 23, 2026) to a high of $1.46 (Mar 30, 2026). In a usual year (2020–2025) it runs highest in September (+7.2% against its own year’s average) and lowest in January (−8.7%).

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

$3.17$0.97
  • 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: 1,740 days with a price.

Average price by month $ per lb

YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
20261.331.401.401.321.341.291.281.261.261.23··1.31
20251.341.401.401.361.361.381.371.341.361.341.291.351.36
20241.481.491.451.591.601.481.451.451.461.431.371.351.47
20231.301.341.401.361.371.461.631.571.711.561.441.471.47
20221.251.371.261.251.251.281.411.551.571.371.221.231.33
20211.161.171.181.231.531.591.311.711.531.361.211.131.34
20201.081.001.251.852.871.131.071.101.151.251.141.171.34

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−8.7%
  2. Feb−3.4%
  3. Mar−5.0%
  4. Apr−3.0%
  5. May+4.6%
  6. Jun+0.2%
  7. Jul−0.2%
  8. Aug+2.8%
  9. Sep+7.2%
  10. Oct−0.1%
  11. Nov−7.4%
  12. Dec−8.1%

Day by day The last 20 days it traded

DayPer cwtPer lbRange, per cwtPounds
Oct 29, 2026$1.23$1.23$1.13–$1.53225,612
Oct 28, 2026$1.21$1.21$1.13–$1.59404,318
Oct 27, 2026$1.21$1.21$1.10–$1.55667,367
Oct 26, 2026$1.24$1.24$1.11–$1.60414,349
Oct 23, 2026$1.20$1.20$1.12–$1.58556,194
Oct 22, 2026$1.24$1.24$1.15–$1.53184,299
Oct 21, 2026$1.24$1.24$1.12–$1.59494,368
Oct 20, 2026$1.24$1.24$1.11–$1.52386,857
Oct 19, 2026$1.24$1.24$1.15–$1.61536,545
Oct 16, 2026$1.22$1.22$1.16–$1.59392,440
Oct 15, 2026$1.24$1.24$1.17–$1.61391,842
Oct 14, 2026$1.24$1.24$1.15–$1.57375,598
Oct 13, 2026$1.23$1.23$1.17–$1.53388,497
Oct 12, 2026$1.22$1.22$1.16–$1.57715,506
Oct 9, 2026$1.24$1.24$1.16–$1.61496,563
Oct 8, 2026$1.25$1.25$1.16–$1.58522,510
Oct 7, 2026$1.26$1.26$1.20–$1.58345,278
Oct 6, 2026$1.25$1.25$1.11–$1.56671,057
Oct 5, 2026$1.26$1.26$1.22–$1.65485,228
Oct 2, 2026$1.25$1.25$1.16–$1.59379,169

Every day is in the CSV downloads.

Other cuts from the loin today Dearest first, per pound

The loin primal as a whole was worth $0.75 per hundredweight on Thursday, Oct 29, 2026: its page.

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 “Bnls CC Strap-on”. 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.