Publication
Chicken Monitor
Restaurants, caterers, and food-service buyers facing a supplier's price claim on chicken. 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 Numbers computed from the 2026-09-23 baseline capture, which superseded an earlier run of the same day whose BLS fetch failed for want of a registration key. Prose not yet written. Wholesale weighted averages carry no year-over-year figure at the baseline: report 3649 states the current and previous month only, so that comparison accumulates in this record from this capture. 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/WPU022203 |
| USDA AMS: Monthly National Chicken Report (PDF, report 3649) | OFFICIAL MARKET REPORT (monthly weighted-average wholesale price, cents per lb) | https://mymarketnews.ams.usda.gov/viewReport/3649 |
| USDA AMS: Weekly Young Chickens Slaughtered Under Federal Inspection (NW_PY002) | OFFICIAL STATISTIC (supply: head slaughtered and average live weight) | https://www.ams.usda.gov/market-news/chicken-market-news-reports |
| USDA ERS: Retail prices for beef, pork, poultry cuts, eggs and dairy products (CSV) | OFFICIAL STATISTIC (wholesale and retail broiler composite, cents per lb) | https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/meat-price-spreads |
| 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 Broiler Market At-a-Glance (PDF, report 2740) | OFFICIAL MARKET REPORT (daily narrative; retained, not parsed) | https://www.ams.usda.gov/market-news/chicken-market-news-reports |