Price index · Q3 2026
27 Northeast farms published a comparable price in Q3 2026.
Assembled from the approved price ledger as of , the newest source-verification date it contains. This edition is a starting line, not a live re-check.
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Correction note · September 8, 2026: Subsequent source review removed Mumford’s flat-fee share offer from the comparable index and Cotton’s variable-weight ground beef from the cut index. The figures below preserve the original aggregate edition, not a corrected current comparison. Do not use this baseline to infer a price trend; use the current corrected listings.
Headline figure
$7.25 median full cost / hanging lb
This figure describes the published offers in the report, not any single farm’s value.
This dated edition covers 27 comparable farms and 31 cut categories meeting the evidence threshold. It is a snapshot of published prices, not a survey weighted to represent all farms in the region.
Baseline
This is the first report.
There is no prior quarter to compare against yet, so these figures are the baseline the next report will move against. No trend is shown.
Cut medians · 31 cuts
Reported cut medians
Only cuts reported by at least 5 farms are shown. These are listing medians per packaged pound, not averages weighted equally by farm. They cannot be compared directly with the hanging-pound share median.
| Cut | Median | Farms |
|---|---|---|
| Ground beef | $10.00 | 79 |
| Ribeye | $25.70 | 54 |
| New york strip | $23.66 | 51 |
| Sirloin | $18.00 | 43 |
| Brisket | $12.75 | 37 |
| Chuck roast | $11.50 | 33 |
| Filet mignon | $34.00 | 33 |
| Porterhouse | $24.75 | 32 |
| Stew beef | $10.95 | 26 |
| Flank steak | $18.00 | 25 |
| T-bone | $22.00 | 24 |
| Short ribs | $10.00 | 23 |
| Skirt steak | $17.50 | 21 |
| Tenderloin | $30.00 | 19 |
| Flat iron | $19.99 | 17 |
| Round roast | $12.50 | 17 |
| Soup bones | $4.21 | 17 |
| London broil | $12.00 | 15 |
| Hanger steak | $19.98 | 12 |
| Rib roast | $25.00 | 12 |
| Oxtail | $10.50 | 11 |
| Chuck steak | $12.00 | 10 |
| Osso buco | $8.00 | 9 |
| Tri-tip | $20.99 | 9 |
| Heart | $5.31 | 7 |
| Liver | $5.00 | 7 |
| Sausage | $13.00 | 7 |
| Tomahawk | $28.00 | 7 |
| Suet / tallow | $4.00 | 6 |
| Tongue | $8.71 | 6 |
| Roast (mixed) | $11.47 | 5 |
What this sample can tell you
Share comparisons require a stated share size, a hanging-weight rate, and published processing costs or explicit inclusion. Cut comparisons require an explicit per-pound price or an exact fixed net weight. Package totals with approximate weights do not qualify for cut-rate statistics. See the full inclusion rules.
The historical aggregate preserves farm counts and qualifying cut statistics, but not the farm membership or state composition of this edition. Those details cannot be reconstructed from today’s changing directory. The download contains the actual dated aggregate used on this page, not the current ledger.
Adding or removing farms changes the sample. A change in its median alone does not show that the same farms raised or lowered prices. Different collection methods are kept separate, and any future market-change claim needs matched farms, consistent offers and comparable dates.
This edition reads the approved price ledger; later editions re-check each farm’s published source directly. Neither changes a listing on its own. Read the methodology.