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USDA soybeans (us #1) board price per ton, national benchmark, 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
Cite
- national soybeans benchmark, plant input cost
About this data
- Source
- USDA AMS feedstuffs board
- Series
- Soybeans (US #1) board price
- Basis
- Grain Co-Products plant input cost, national
- Geography
- National
- Unit
- $/ton
- Calculation
- Weekly national benchmark
- Last observation
- Aug 10, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly
Now $408/ton (national soybeans benchmark, plant input cost) as of Aug 10, 2026, USDA, up 0% on the week.
US soybeans are $408/ton as of Aug 10, up 0.3 percent on the week but 18.5 percent above the prior year's $344/ton. They sit 0.8 percent above the 4-year median.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | $408/ton | $406/ton | +0.3% |
| Month over month | $408/ton | $410/ton | -0.5% |
| Year over year | $408/ton | $344/ton | +18.5% |
| vs 4-yr median | $408/ton | $405/ton | +0.8% |
Previous weeks
An earlier week
Soybeans are at $406 per ton, down 1 percent on the week, per USDA. Year over year, the benchmark has risen 22 percent from $333 per ton. The price sits 1.7 percent below its 4-year median.
An earlier week
Soybeans benchmarked at $410 a ton, up 0.9 percent on the week and 7.5 percent from a month ago. The price stands 8.7 percent above the 3-year median and 19.6 percent higher than a year ago.
About Soybeans (US #1) price
Soybeans (US #1) are one of the two commodities every feedstuff is priced against. They are priced and tracked here, but they are not scored on the nutrient-cost screening board: no dry-matter-basis nutrient coefficient for them was verified against a primary extension or NRC table at build, and this site never guesses a coefficient. 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). Soybeans, US number one, is the other benchmark grain here, priced as the raw commodity rather than after crushing. Most of the crop that does not go to seed, food or export heads to a crush plant for meal and oil, but a real feed market exists too for whole beans fed directly, usually roasted first to deactivate the trypsin inhibitor raw soybeans carry, letting a dairy capture the bean's fat and protein in one feed. Price is set in the export and crush markets first, moving on Midwest acreage, yield, Chinese export demand, and the same renewable-diesel-driven crush growth pulling on the complex's oil side.