Commodities · Agriculture and food

Beef Price (monthly, since 1960)

World Bank Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet): monthly averages of world benchmark prices in U.S. dollars.

Beef, $ per pound: $3.11 (Sep 2026).
A year earlier: $3.13 (Sep 2025), a change of −0.6%.
Highest on record here: $3.72 (Mar 2026); lowest: $0.25 (Feb 1963).

The World Bank's beef price has changed specification over the years: New Zealand lean beef imported into the U.S. since 2024, Australian cuts before that.

Year	Average	Year close
1960	$0.33	$0.30
1961	$0.31	$0.33
1962	$0.32	$0.27
1963	$0.30	$0.31
1964	$0.38	$0.39
1965	$0.40	$0.43
1966	$0.46	$0.48
1967	$0.47	$0.46
1968	$0.49	$0.49
1969	$0.55	$0.55
1970	$0.59	$0.59
1971	$0.61	$0.60

Source: World Bank Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet): Beef. The World Bank, CC BY 4.0.

Gray bands mark U.S. recessions as dated by the NBER (FRED USREC).

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