Publication
Cheddar Check
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
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 2026-10-18T145249Zpublished
- 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/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-printed-reports |
| USDA ERS Food Price Outlook (CPI forecast table) | FOOD-COST INDICATOR (official forecast table) | https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook |