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Oats: price received, marketing-year average: Montana
The average price farmers received per bushel for oats over each marketing year, from USDA's agricultural prices survey.
Up to dateYearly (marketing-year average). Last published Aug 31, 2026. Next expected April 2027.
The latest figures and how they have changed
Montana, 2025
$3.61 a bushel
Down 5.5% from $3.82 in 2024
United States, 2025
$3.23 a bushel
Down 3.6% from $3.35 in 2024
MontanaUnited States
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What the numbers say
- Montana's price received is 1.1 times the US average.
- Since 2016 it has risen 12.8%, from $3.20 to $3.61 a bushel.
- Gaps are years with no Montana figure: NASS withheld the figure in 2022 to protect individual farms. Nothing is filled in.
Every figure behind this chart
| Year | Montana | United States |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $3.61 | $3.23 |
| 2024 | $3.82 | $3.35 |
| 2023 | $4.13 | $3.92 |
| 2022 | Withheld to protect individual farms | $4.57 |
| 2021 | $3.98 | $4.55 |
| 2020 | $3.12 | $2.77 |
| 2019 | $3.14 | $2.82 |
| 2018 | $2.71 | $2.66 |
| 2017 | $2.86 | $2.59 |
| 2016 | $3.20 | $2.06 |
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Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Agricultural Prices Survey. State estimates released Aug 31, 2026; US estimates released Jun 29, 2026. Quick Stats item "OATS - PRICE RECEIVED, MEASURED IN $ / BU". Retrieved Oct 25, 2026; snapshot 2026-10-25.1. 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.