Producer prices for food produced and sold in Germany fell 4.1% in September 2026 from a year earlier. In its industrial producer price release dated 20 October, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said prices for non-durable consumer goods overall were down 1.8% year on year, with the decline in food more pronounced. The index measures domestic selling prices at an early stage of the economic process, before products reach consumers.

By product, butter was 34.8% cheaper than in September 2025, pork 13.9% cheaper and beef 9.9% cheaper. Vegetable oil prices, by contrast, rose 14.5%, while sugar increased 4.1%. These are annual comparisons at the producer level; they do not represent retail prices or imply that household prices changed by the same amounts.