Farm & food prices · Prices farmers receive
Calves: price received, marketing-year average: California
The average price farmers received per hundredweight for calves over each marketing year, from USDA's agricultural prices survey.
LateYearly (marketing-year average). Last published Jan 1, 2012. Next expected May 2026.
The latest figures and how they have changed
California, 2010
$116 a hundredweight
Up 16.0% from $100 in 2009
United States, 2025
$417 a hundredweight
Up 29.5% from $322 in 2024
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What the numbers say
- In 2010, California's price received was the same as the US average.
- From 2006 to 2010 it fell 1.7%, from $118 to $116 a hundredweight.
Every figure behind this chart
| Year | California | United States |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | No figure | $417 |
| 2024 | No figure | $322 |
| 2023 | No figure | $261 |
| 2022 | No figure | $195 |
| 2021 | No figure | $171 |
| 2020 | No figure | $161 |
| 2019 | No figure | $159 |
| 2018 | No figure | $170 |
| 2017 | No figure | $168 |
| 2016 | No figure | $158 |
| 2015 | No figure | $247 |
| 2014 | No figure | $261 |
| 2013 | No figure | $181 |
| 2012 | No figure | $172 |
| 2011 | No figure | $142 |
| 2010 | $116 | $117 |
| 2009 | $100 | $105 |
| 2008 | $102 | $110 |
| 2007 | $109 | $119 |
| 2006 | $118 | $133 |
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Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Agricultural Prices Survey. State estimates released Jan 1, 2012; US estimates released Feb 27, 2026. Quick Stats item "CATTLE, CALVES - PRICE RECEIVED, MEASURED IN $ / CWT". Retrieved Oct 20, 2026; snapshot 2026-10-20.1. Dollars as published, not adjusted for inflation. This product uses the NASS API but is not endorsed or certified by NASS.
What this measures
It is USDA's average for a whole marketing year, weighted by how much of it sold in each month of the marketing year, so it is not the average of the monthly prices.