Table 3. Average retail prices, volume index, and percent sold under featuring for beef, pork, poultry, lamb, and veal based on supermarket scanner data, most recent 2 months and most recent month a year earlier							Next update when federal funding is renewed
	Most recent month 4/08			Previous month 3/08			Year prior for most recent month 4/07
Item¹	Feature-weighted average price ($/lb)²	Volume index (2001 = 100)³	Percent of volume sold under featuring⁴	Feature-weighted average price ($/lb)²	Volume index (2001 = 100)³	Percent of volume sold under featuring⁴	Feature-weighted average price ($/lb)²	Volume index (2001 = 100)³	Percent of volume sold under featuring⁴
Prices based on retail scanner data weighted by sales volume and accounting for featuring
Beef prices
Ground chuck	$1.93	105	47	$2.18	107	51	$2.31	110	40
Ground beef, 100-percent beef	$2.07	90	37	$2.26	99	37	$2.27	104	30
Lean and extra lean ground beef	$3.18	77	30	$3.22	93	32	$3.18	108	30
--All uncooked ground beef	$2.46	86	34	$2.62	97	35	$2.62	107	30
Chuck roast, USDA Choice, boneless	$2.47	130	31	$2.56	149	38	$2.54	154	35
Chuck roast, graded and ungraded but not choice or prime	$2.34	45	30	$2.64	51	20	$2.55	53	23
Round roast, USDA Choice, boneless	$2.78	83	41	$2.87	130	40	$3.03	105	35
Round roast, graded and ungraded but not choice or prime	$3.12	33	27	$3.00	44	28	$3.45	46	25
--All uncooked beef roasts	$2.70	76	31	$2.99	97	32	$3.10	94	31
Steak, T-bone, USDA Choice, bone-in	$6.88	121	46	$7.33	97	28	$8.55	97	30
Steak, rib eye, USDA Choice, boneless	$9.49	102	12	$9.09	129	11	$9.39	182	14
Steak, round, USDA choice	$3.38	86	23	$3.41	104	15	$3.43	109	25
Steak, round, graded and ungraded but not choice or prime	$2.97	54	29	$3.17	63	37	$3.30	66	40
Steak, sirloin, USDA Choice, boneless	$5.19	112	17	$5.34	117	23	$5.65	150	18
Steak, sirloin, graded and ungraded but not choice or prime	$4.93	20	25	$4.03	43	45	$4.63	41	39
--All uncooked beef steaks	$5.07	80	27	$5.20	85	28	$5.53	95	27
Beef for stew, boneless	$3.49	81	22	$3.53	126	24	$3.47	107	22
All uncooked other beef not veal	$3.20	63	6	$2.58	179	29	$3.22	83	14
--All beef	$3.35	81	30	$3.38	100	31	$3.60	99	28
Pork prices
Bacon, sliced⁵	$3.07	49	0	$3.36	62	0	$3.06	57	0
Chops, center cut, bone-in	$2.95	80	21	$3.44	71	19	$2.83	98	27
Chops, boneless	$3.19	118	29	$3.50	127	27	$3.22	157	31
--All pork chops	$2.58	108	32	$2.86	112	27	$2.82	121	24
Ham, boneless not canned	$2.99	48	8	$2.21	226	27	$2.39	211	29
--All ham (not canned or sliced)	$2.21	33	9	$1.23	337	55	$1.57	260	46
Sausage, fresh, loose⁵	$2.67	69	35	$2.78	74	18	$2.72	80	19
All other pork excluding canned and sliced	$1.70	99	30	$1.96	78	12	$2.02	91	15
--All pork	$2.31	105	35	$2.52	102	27	$2.56	107	25
Poultry prices
Chicken, fresh whole	$0.87	85	53	$0.94	108	60	$0.92	96	52
Chicken, breast, bone-in	$1.37	63	44	$1.58	54	42	$1.62	46	39
Chicken, legs, bone-in	$1.13	99	53	$1.18	109	43	$1.11	117	41
--All chicken	$1.64	89	48	$1.72	100	46	$1.74	102	43
Turkey, frozen whole	$1.20	4	8	$0.91	15	16	$0.99	12	28
--All turkey	$1.90	13	16	$1.53	35	32	$1.49	33	32
Other meat prices
--All lamb	$5.74	61	15	$5.45	112	25	$4.81	153	23
--All veal	$7.38	46	5	$7.53	62	5	$6.05	89	3


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¹Random-weight items only. ²Average monthly price, weighted by sales volume, and accounting for featuring (discounts given to customers from regular shelf price). ³An index comparing the month's volume of sales to the average monthly volume for calendar year 2001. ⁴Featuring (discounts given to customers from regular shelf price) likely has an effect on the quantity of meat sold. ⁵Random-weight items only; does not include prepackaged items. Source: Compiled for USDA-ERS from retail supermarket scanner data.