Publication
Beef Monitor
Independent restaurants, caterers, and small food buyers facing a supplier's price claim on beef. Market evidence from public sources, arranged so that a price claim can be checked against it. Nothing here is a supplier's cost, and nothing here says whether a contractual adjustment is permitted.
Editions
Latest edition: Issue 1: October 2026. Each edition keeps its own permanent address; this page always points at the most recent one and never replaces an earlier one.
- 2 November 2026Issue 1: October 2026Data run 2026-10-18T145119Zpublished
- 23 September 2026Issue 0: September 2026 baselineNumbers computed, text not yet writtenscaffold
Sources
Fetched by script, retained byte for byte, and listed with each edition. The full method, including comparison rules and the letter map for any original observations, is on the methodology page.
| Source | Class | Page |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: PPI, CPI and average price series (public API v2) | FOOD-COST INDICATOR (index) and OFFICIAL STATISTIC (average retail price) | https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/WPU0131 |
| USDA AMS: National Weekly Boxed Beef Cutout and Boxed Beef Cuts, negotiated sales (Datamart report 2461) | OFFICIAL STATISTIC (weekly cutout value under mandatory price reporting, USD per cwt) | https://mymarketnews.ams.usda.gov/viewReport/2461 |
| USDA AMS: National Weekly Fed Cattle Comprehensive (Datamart report 2700) | OFFICIAL STATISTIC (weekly weighted-average fed cattle price under mandatory price reporting) | https://mymarketnews.ams.usda.gov/viewReport/2700 |
| USDA NASS: Cattle on Feed (monthly, text) | OFFICIAL STATISTIC (supply: cattle on feed, placements, marketings) | https://esmis.nal.usda.gov/publication/cattle-feed |
| USDA ERS Food Price Outlook (CPI forecast table) | FOOD-COST INDICATOR (official forecast table) | https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook |
| USDA AMS: National Weekly Cattle and Beef Summary (PDF) | OFFICIAL MARKET REPORT (weekly narrative; retained, not parsed) | https://www.ams.usda.gov/market-news/weekly-and-monthly-beef-reports |