Pork ham primal
The composite value of the pork ham primal: what the day’s negotiated sales of its cuts add up to, per hundredweight of the primal, from USDA’s daily pork report. The latest value, for Oct 29, 2026, is $0.60 per hundredweight.
- Price
- $0.60 +$0.40
Is today’s price high or low? · On the low side
Higher than on 1 of the other 254 business days in the past year.
Lowest of the yearHighest of the year
A year earlier (Oct 29, 2025) it was $0.95 per hundredweight; today’s is −37.0% against that. Over the past year’s 255 reports it averaged $0.83, from a low of $0.59 (Oct 28, 2026) to a high of $1.06 (Jul 21, 2026). In a usual year (2020–2025) it runs highest in July (+17.1% against its own year’s average) and lowest in January (−13.2%).
Every week on record Jan 2, 2020 to Oct 29, 2026
- 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 cwt
| Year | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 83.95 | 83.48 | 79.12 | 83.78 | 80.95 | 82.21 | 97.08 | 78.31 | 81.45 | 67.16 | · | · | 81.75 |
| 2025 | 79.85 | 84.36 | 87.15 | 83.96 | 89.64 | 107.44 | 107.49 | 109.35 | 103.62 | 99.35 | 87.22 | 94.38 | 94.48 |
| 2024 | 75.08 | 77.73 | 77.94 | 86.64 | 84.07 | 86.21 | 100.64 | 94.09 | 86.59 | 85.97 | 89.82 | 97.55 | 86.86 |
| 2023 | 76.25 | 77.68 | 79.48 | 71.33 | 80.15 | 84.64 | 99.82 | 92.68 | 89.91 | 82.89 | 82.42 | 79.27 | 83.04 |
| 2022 | 64.91 | 74.90 | 79.23 | 82.61 | 87.58 | 94.57 | 108.87 | 108.40 | 104.62 | 108.40 | 101.76 | 88.73 | 92.05 |
| 2021 | 71.59 | 78.33 | 83.85 | 92.20 | 87.43 | 87.11 | 102.15 | 85.82 | 81.98 | 72.54 | 73.73 | 68.84 | 82.13 |
| 2020 | 68.61 | 57.75 | 54.28 | 42.26 | 50.66 | 47.11 | 59.02 | 58.15 | 79.11 | 82.84 | 82.70 | 74.95 | 63.12 |
Each month is weighted by the pounds sold on each day (primal values are a plain average). 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
- Jan−13.2%
- Feb−9.5%
- Mar−9.0%
- Apr−10.7%
- May−4.2%
- Jun+2.3%
- Jul+17.1%
- Aug+10.0%
- Sep+9.0%
- Oct+2.5%
- Nov+1.3%
- Dec−1.9%
Day by day The last 20 days it traded
| Day | Per cwt |
|---|---|
| Oct 29, 2026 | $0.60 |
| Oct 28, 2026 | $0.59 |
| Oct 27, 2026 | $0.60 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $0.60 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $0.60 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $0.61 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $0.61 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $0.64 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $0.65 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $0.66 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $0.66 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $0.69 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $0.66 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $0.73 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $0.69 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $0.69 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $0.71 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $0.74 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $0.78 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $0.78 |
Every day is in the CSV downloads.
Cuts from the ham today Dearest first, per pound
| Cut | Per lb |
|---|---|
| Ham insides, boxed | $2.29 |
| Bone-in ham shanks, boxed | $1.81 |
| Ham outsides, RED, combo bin | $1.67 |
| Ham knuckles, RED, combo bin | $1.67 |
| Ham insides, RED, combo bin | $1.66 |
| Three-muscle ham, to blue | $1.53 |
| Ham knuckles | $1.31 |
| Boneless roll-out ham, boxed | $1.27 |
| Ham insides | $1.17 |
| Ham outsides | $1.16 |
| Pork ham, 23–27 lb, boxed | $1.03 |
| Trimmed selected ham, 20–23 lb | $0.67 |
| Trimmed selected ham, 23–27 lb | $0.60 |
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. 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.