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Pork brisket bones, full cut, 30 lb, frozen

USDA’s daily wholesale price for pork brisket bones, full cut, 30 lb, frozen, sold by packers on negotiated deals, FOB the plant. Stores often sell it as pork brisket bones, rib tips. The latest price, for Oct 29, 2026, is $1.37 per hundredweight, or $1.37 a pound.

Price
$1.37/lb +16.3%
Per cwt
$1.37
Day’s range
$1.30–$1.38
Pounds sold
5,304

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

Higher than on 40 of the other 197 days it traded in the past year.

Lowest of the yearHighest of the year

A year earlier (Oct 28, 2025) it was $1.29 per hundredweight; today’s is +6.3% against that. Over the past year it traded on 198 days, averaging $1.51, from a low of $0.96 (Sep 24, 2026) to a high of $2.07 (Aug 31, 2026). In a usual year (2020–2025) it runs highest in October (+7.4% against its own year’s average) and lowest in January (−6.5%).

Every week on record Jan 3, 2020 to Oct 29, 2026

$1.76$0.82
  • 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 3, 2020: 1,372 days with a price.

Average price by month $ per lb

YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
20261.511.561.621.651.581.581.481.461.291.43··1.52
20251.151.141.171.191.321.141.301.341.391.431.461.411.29
20241.281.271.221.321.261.171.191.251.181.101.101.081.20
20230.870.970.941.041.091.151.171.141.281.331.311.301.13
20221.050.991.101.121.111.170.991.021.021.070.960.951.05
20211.091.151.191.211.201.251.241.271.301.261.211.171.21
20200.990.980.990.830.960.940.941.051.071.131.161.131.01

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−6.5%
  2. Feb−5.3%
  3. Mar−2.1%
  4. Apr−4.0%
  5. May+1.0%
  6. Jun−0.6%
  7. Jul+0.1%
  8. Aug+3.4%
  9. Sep+6.6%
  10. Oct+7.4%
  11. Nov+6.9%
  12. Dec+2.9%

Day by day The last 20 days it traded

DayPer cwtPer lbRange, per cwtPounds
Oct 29, 2026$1.37$1.37$1.30–$1.385,304
Oct 27, 2026$1.18$1.18$0.99–$1.2619,536
Oct 26, 2026$1.65$1.65$1.26–$2.1521,097
Oct 23, 2026$1.36$1.36$1.30–$1.387,669
Oct 20, 2026$2.01$2.01$1.26–$2.1561,769
Oct 19, 2026$1.91$1.91$1.26–$2.1512,751
Oct 16, 2026$1.23$1.23$1.23–$1.2644,072
Oct 13, 2026$1.42$1.42$1.26–$1.505,586
Oct 12, 2026$1.31$1.31$1.18–$2.1546,823
Oct 8, 2026$1.32$1.32$1.18–$2.1452,290
Oct 6, 2026$1.28$1.28$1.26–$1.2985,232
Oct 5, 2026$1.67$1.67$1.26–$2.1513,854
Oct 2, 2026$1.24$1.24$1.24–$1.2638,213
Oct 1, 2026$1.41$1.41$1.34–$1.6270,698
Sep 30, 2026$1.29$1.29$1.26–$1.307,611
Sep 29, 2026$1.68$1.68$1.26–$2.1538,205
Sep 25, 2026$1.23$1.23$1.19–$1.4075,776
Sep 24, 2026$0.96$0.96$0.95–$1.4432,164
Sep 22, 2026$1.75$1.75$1.26–$2.1513,989
Sep 21, 2026$1.69$1.69$1.30–$2.127,020

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 “Brisket Bones, Full Cut, 30#, FZN”. 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.