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
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 2026-10-18T145048Zpublished
- 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/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 |