650–700 g · GST-free · checked 24 Oct 2026
White sandwich loaf.
What the chain gets, so far
We don't have a shelf price for this yet: we only use published or shopper-reported prices. Once there is one, what's left for the supermarket shows here. Add the price you paid.
- The farmer or grower$0.23–$0.25
- Wheat at $419.86/t (ASW) to $429.84/t (APW), FOB Port Adelaide, 21 October 2026 (ABARES weekly prices) × 0.546 to 0.588 kg of wheat per loaf = $0.23 to $0.25. Wheat per loaf: 480 g of flour, milled from 588 g of wheat, for a 700 g white loaf (Grain SA, 2015); scaled to 546 g of wheat for a 650 g loaf. A port price includes the cost of trucking and storing grain to the port, so the farmer is paid somewhat less than this per tonne; the up-country deduction isn't in the source. Source
- Processing and packingnot published
- Flour millers and bakers (George Weston Foods, Goodman Fielder, supermarket in-house bakeries) don't publish what flour costs them per loaf or what it costs to bake, slice and bag one.
- Freight and wholesalenot published
- No baker or retailer publishes the per-loaf cost of daily delivery from bakery to store.
Worth knowing
- The wheat in a loaf is a small part of its price. Most of the shelf price goes to milling, other ingredients, baking, packaging, daily delivery and the shop, none of which is published per loaf.
- The wheat-per-loaf figure comes from a South African grain growers' study of a 700 g white loaf. We haven't found an Australian equivalent; recipes vary between bakeries.
- We couldn't find a published 2026 shelf price for a plain white sandwich loaf from a survey or the press, so no shelf price is shown yet.
Sources
- ABARES, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry: Weekly commodity price update: Australian agricultural prices, 22 Oct 2026 · read 24 Oct 2026
- Grain SA: What is a wheat farmer's percentage share of retail white bread?, 22 Oct 2015 · read 24 Oct 2026
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