Publication
Cheddar Monitor
Pizzerias, sandwich shops, and caterers facing a supplier's price claim on cheese. 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
No edition has been published yet. The methodology and source list are public now; the first edition will be listed here with its permanent address when it publishes.
- 23 September 2026Issue 0: September 2026 baselineNumbers computed, text not yet written. Numbers computed from the 2026-09-23 baseline capture; prose not yet written. The mandatory-reported block series carries its full history from 2012, so year-over-year is real at the baseline. The CME reprint carries one week per report, so this record holds a single week of it and the block-against-CME comparison is absent until the two series cover a common week. The 500-pound barrel series is recorded as having ceased publication after the week ending 2025-05-31. Publication gated by FA-D-20260923-01 as amended by FA-D-20260923-02 and FA-D-20260923-04.scaffold
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/WPU023302 |
| USDA AMS: National Dairy Products Sales Report, 40-pound block cheddar (Datamart report 2993) | OFFICIAL STATISTIC (weekly weighted-average wholesale price under mandatory reporting, USD per lb) | https://mpr.datamart.ams.usda.gov/menu.do?path=Products%5CDairy%5CNational%20Dairy%20Products%20Sales%20Report |
| USDA AMS: National Dairy Products Sales Report, 500-pound barrel cheddar (Datamart report 2993) | OFFICIAL STATISTIC (weekly weighted-average wholesale price under mandatory reporting, USD per lb; publication ceased mid-2025) | https://mpr.datamart.ams.usda.gov/menu.do?path=Products%5CDairy%5CNational%20Dairy%20Products%20Sales%20Report |
| USDA AMS: Dairy Market News weekly report, CME cheese (PDF) | OFFICIAL MARKET REPORT (CME cheese cash market as reprinted by USDA) | https://www.ams.usda.gov/market-news/dairy-market-news-weekly-report |
| USDA ERS Food Price Outlook (CPI forecast table) | FOOD-COST INDICATOR (official forecast table) | https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook |