Wholesale cash prices on Friday showed a mixed picture: broiler chicken and eggs held steady, several dairy and coffee items rose, grains nudged lower, and copper and energy remained firm.
On Friday, wholesale cash prices across food, grains, and key raw materials reflected a market that isn’t swinging wildly—but is still making small, consequential adjustments for producers and buyers.
Broilers stayed flat at a national computed weighted average of 1.2500 for both Friday and Thursday. Eggs, large white, Chicago, also held steady at 0.5350 per dozen. The same steadiness showed up in soybean meal. central Illinois. rail. ton 48%. which remained at 349.10 for both days. as did soybean oil. crude in central Illinois. which stayed at 0.7720 per pound.
In dairy and coffee, the movement was more noticeable. Cheddar cheese, blocks, in Chicago rose to 148.00 per pound from 146.75. Coffee traded higher in two markets: Brazilian coffee, compiled, moved to 2.6994 from 2.6574, and Colombian coffee in New York moved to 3.0753 from 3.0298.
The grains market was also mixed. Corn, No. 2 yellow, cent. Ill., fell to 4.0500 per bushel from 4.1100. Oats, No. 2 milling, Minneapolis, slid to 3.4350 from 3.5150. Soybeans, No. 1 yellow Illinois, dropped to 11.0700 from 11.3200. Spring wheat in Minneapolis—14% protein—edged down to 7.6100 from 7.6125.
Other wholesale inputs offered their own signals. Hard winter flour in Kansas City was listed as n.a. for Thursday and moved to 17.40 on Friday. Copper on the Comex spot market rose slightly, moving to 6.5110 per pound from 6.4810.
Livestock prices were mostly calm. Hogs, Iowa-South Minnesota average, were 91.46 cwt on Thursday and 91.62 cwt on Friday. Pork loins, 13-19 lbs, mid-US, moved up to 1.1261 from 1.1163 per pound. Feeder steers, Oklahoma City average, stayed locked at 433.75 cwt for both days.
In textiles, cotton dipped. Cotton, 1 1/16 strand lw-md Mmphs, per pound fell to 0.7189 from 0.7373. Energy held steady in the data provided: coal in Central Appalachia, 12,500 Btu, 1.2 SO2 remained at 87.000 for both Thursday and Friday.
Across this set of wholesale cash prices. the pattern is clear: some categories stayed locked while others—cheddar. coffee. cotton. and several grain contracts—shifted enough to matter. For buyers and sellers. those small moves are often the difference between holding costs steady and having to adjust plans again next week.
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Broilers were flat so that means chicken prices are magically not going up, right?
So cheddar went up but eggs stayed the same?? I feel like this never matches what I pay at the store. Like they can say 0.5350 all day and I’m still getting smoked at checkout.
Wait copper is “firm” but energy is steady? That’s kinda confusing like which one actually affects prices? I’m guessing coal being the same means electricity bills will go down later lol.
Corn down, soybeans down… but coffee up so does that mean my paycheck is gonna be better because I drink caffeine? Also why is hard winter flour listed as n.a. half the time, like does that mean it’s free? I don’t trust any of these numbers.