Butter.

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$1.54–$2.09

250 g × 80.5% milkfat (Dairy Australia In Focus 2025, Table A4) = 0.201 kg fat × 2026-27 opening farmgate prices of $7.65 to $10.38 per kg milk solids = $1.54 to $2.09. Only the fat is counted: making butter also produces skim milk powder from the protein and other solids (Dairy Australia: 10,000 L of milk gives 513 kg butter and 900 kg skim milk powder), and the farmer's pay for those goes with the powder. This treats a kg of fat as paid the same as a kg of protein. Processors set separate fat and protein rates that aren't all published, so the real fat share could be higher or lower. For Australian-made butter only. Source

Processing and packingnot published

Butter makers don't publish the cost of separating cream, churning and wrapping a 250 g block, or the price they sell at to supermarkets.

Freight and wholesalenot published

No published per-block figure for chilled freight from factory to distribution centre and store, or for shipping imported butter from New Zealand.