Ingredients
Above normalBlood meal price
USDA blood meal board price per ton, national fob plant median, with its cost per unit of protein and energy
Data through Aug 10, 2026 · source last checked Aug 20, 2026 · page revised Aug 20, 2026
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- national median across 3 fob plant regions
About this data
- Source
- USDA AMS feedstuffs board
- Series
- Blood meal board price
- Basis
- FOB plant preferred, national cross-region median
- Geography
- National
- Unit
- $/ton
- Calculation
- Weekly cross-region median
- Last observation
- Aug 10, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly
Now $1,250/ton (national median across 3 fob plant regions) as of Aug 10, 2026, USDA, up 1% on the week. Protein costs $0.723 per lb of crude protein (212% of soybean meal); energy $0.944 per lb of TDN (948% of corn).
Blood meal has climbed to $1,250/ton, up 1% on the week and 22% year over year. It prices at $0.723 per pound of crude protein, or 212% of soybean meal. The cost sits 14.3% above the four-year median.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $1,250/ton | $1,233/ton | +1.4% |
| Month over month | $1,250/ton | $1,175/ton | +6.4% |
| Year over year | $1,250/ton | $1,025/ton | +22.0% |
| vs 4-yr median | $1,250/ton | $1,094/ton | +14.3% |
Previous weeks
An earlier week
Blood meal priced $1,233 per ton as of Aug 3, per USDA, up 21.8 percent on the month and 27.6 percent year over year. Crude protein costs $0.713 per pound, 209 percent of soybean meal. Energy costs $0.931 per pound of TDN, 936 percent of corn. The price stands 10 percent above its four-year median.
An earlier week
Blood meal held $1,175 per ton this week, flat week-over-week. The ingredient has firmed 16 percent since June and 14.6 percent year-over-year, running 4.4 percent above its four-year median. On crude protein, blood meal costs 188 percent of soybean meal; on energy, 887 percent of corn, per the USDA board.
About Blood meal price
Blood meal is a protein feed, fed to raise a ration's crude-protein content. On a dry-matter basis it runs about 94% crude protein and 72% TDN, at about 92% dry matter as fed. Those figures come from Kansas State University Extension, Nutritional Composition of Feedstuffs for Beef Cattle (MF3648). TDN spans 61-75% by source. NEl not NRC-tabulated. The leaderboard uses them to convert this week's board price into a cost per pound of protein and per pound of energy, so it can be ranked against corn and soybean meal. Prices are quoted per ton, and the cheapest board price is not the cheapest fed price once freight and moisture are counted (see the FOB-vs-delivered guide). Blood meal is dried, ground blood collected at cattle and hog packing plants, among the most protein-dense feedstuffs on this board and priced accordingly. Supply follows slaughter volume more than any planted acreage, so a packing plant slowdown moves it faster than weather ever does. Drying method matters: spray-dried blood meal keeps far more of its amino acids usable than the older, cheaper ring-dried process, and buyers pay up for it. Dairy and feedlot nutritionists value it as a rumen-bypass protein supplying lysine other feedstuffs lack, but poor palatability and its iron load keep inclusion rates low. Pet food and aquaculture manufacturers increasingly bid for the same spray-dried supply.