America’s butter glut Is driving prices to three-year lows
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- Sep 18
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As America’s appetite for butter grew over the past few years, the dairy industry turned to cows that produce fattier milk and expanded facilities to meet the demand. They might have gone too far.
US butter prices have plunged to the lowest in more than three years as near-record seasonal production raises concerns of a butter glut even with ample demand. Butter futures traded in Chicago on Monday touched the lowest price since November 2021, and contracts for the kind of milk used for butter have dropped similarly.
“This isn’t a demand issue,” said Corey Geiger, the lead dairy economist at farm lender CoBank ACB. “It’s clearly a ‘We’re supplying way too much.’”
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September 17, 2025
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