USDA NASS Quick Stats · Prices received by farmers, monthly, United States
What do farmers get for corn, wheat, soybeans, cattle and milk?
The month ended : of the 5 lines, the change over a year was largest for Wheat, per bushel, up 32.4%, and smallest for Cattle, per hundredweight, down 6.3%.
Prices received by farmers, crops, each month
- Corn, per bushel4.813.12 to 7.38
- Wheat, per bushel6.303.48 to 10.90
- Soybeans, per bushel12.208.02 to 16.40
Prices received by farmers, cattle and milk, each month
- Cattle, per hundredweight223.0097.10 to 254.00
- Milk, per hundredweight19.5013.60 to 27.20
Each row is one line of the page over the last ten years, one month to a point, on a scale shared by the rows of the tab, with its newest value and its range printed beside it and a dashed line at zero. A gap is a month with no value. Pointing at the chart shows the month and the value.
Observed .
Right now
Over a year to September 2026, of the 5 lines on this page the change was largest for Wheat, per bushel, up 32.4%, and smallest for Cattle, per hundredweight, down 6.3%.
Of these lines, 3 rose, 2 fell and 0 did not change over the year (ours, from the published values).
By lineOver a year, ours
Prices received by farmers, change over a year, by line
- Crops
- Cattle and milk
Each bar is the change in one line over a year, the largest first, with its rank at the left and its newest value under the figure. A line with its own page links it from its name. A change below zero runs to the left of the zero line. The colour says which section of the page a line is in.
Observed .
Prices received by farmers, change over a year in each month
| Line | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corn, per bushel | −1.5 | −2.2 | −3.1 | −4.0 | −10.0 | −6.6 | −6.7 | −3.4 | −4.3 | −0.7 | +12.4 | +20.3 |
| Wheat, per bushel | −13.5 | −10.1 | −8.4 | −8.2 | −7.9 | −3.3 | +1.6 | +5.4 | +8.0 | +22.7 | +28.7 | +32.4 |
| Soybeans, per bushel | −2.2 | +6.7 | +5.2 | +3.0 | +3.9 | +8.8 | +9.8 | +11.5 | +8.7 | +13.7 | +21.0 | +22.9 |
| Cattle, per hundredweight | +24.1 | +20.2 | +16.3 | +15.6 | +17.7 | +16.8 | +16.3 | +15.1 | +11.4 | +7.4 | −2.1 | −6.3 |
| Milk, per hundredweight | −20.7 | −19.0 | −18.5 | −27.4 | −22.5 | −10.5 | −1.4 | −0.5 | −0.9 | −2.4 | −5.3 | −4.4 |
Each chip is one month's change from the same month a year earlier. The mark in its middle is zero: a fill to the right of it is a rise and a fill to the left a fall. A longer, brighter fill is a larger change, in five steps up to 22.5 and over. Every chip prints its figure and sign.
Observed .
Understanding farm prices received
Where it stands today
The largest change over a year was Wheat, per bushel, up 32.4%, in September 2026.
What do the lines of this page measure?
The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) of the US Department of Agriculture estimates the price farmers received for each of five farm products in every month and publishes it in its Agricultural Prices report and in its Quick Stats database. Each figure is a United States price: corn, wheat and soybeans in dollars per bushel, cattle and milk in dollars per hundredweight (100 pounds).
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Cattle are beef cattle weighing 500 pounds or more. Wheat is all kinds of wheat together. Milk is all milk.
What 500metrics adds: the change over a year of every line, ranked across the page; the last ten years of every line as rows of small charts; and a table of the change over a year in each of the last twelve months. Each line has a page of its own with the history since the series begins.
The numbers behind the chart
What is the latest value of each line?5 lines, in the sections of the page
| Line | Section | Month | Value | Change over a year | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corn, per bushel | Crops | $4.81 | +20.3% | 3 | |
| Wheat, per bushel | Crops | $6.30 | +32.4% | 1 | |
| Soybeans, per bushel | Crops | $12.20 | +22.9% | 2 | |
| Cattle, per hundredweight | Cattle and milk | $223.00 | −6.3% | 5 | |
| Milk, per hundredweight | Cattle and milk | $19.50 | −4.4% | 4 |
The table scrolls sideways; the first column stays in place.
What do these figures leave out, and how are they cited?Limits, dates and how to cite
What this number cannot tell you
- The lines are in different units, so their values cannot be compared with each other; their changes, which are in percent, can.
- Each price is NASS's monthly estimate for the whole United States. Prices differ by state, by grade and from day to day, and NASS revises an estimate in later months; this page shows the newest figures.
- NASS leaves a month out when it has too few reports to make an estimate, and the chart then shows a gap.
- The changes and the ranks are ours, worked out from the values NASS publishes; a change is in percent.
- This product uses the NASS API but is not endorsed or certified by NASS.
Observed . Checked .
How to cite this
U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service, Quick Stats, Prices received by farmers, monthly, United States, through September 2026. Compiled by 500metrics, "What do farmers get for corn, wheat, soybeans, cattle and milk?", https://500metrics.com/farm-prices-received.
Can the data be downloaded?farm-prices-received.csv
Download the last ten years of every line as CSV: 605 rows, to , 30,852 bytes.
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