Publication
Egg & Butter Brief
Bakeries, pastry shops, and breakfast businesses facing a supplier's price claim on eggs or butter. 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.
- 18 October 2026Issue 1: October 2026Data run 2026-10-18T144956Zpublished
- 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 and CPI series (public API v1) | FOOD-COST INDICATOR (index, not a price) | https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/WPU0171 |
| USDA AMS: Weekly Combined Regional Shell Egg Report (PDF, report 2848) | OFFICIAL MARKET REPORT (weekly wholesale price, cents per dozen) | https://mymarketnews.ams.usda.gov/viewReport/2848 |
| USDA AMS: Egg Markets Overview (weekly PDF, report 3725) | OFFICIAL MARKET REPORT (weekly narrative; retained, not parsed) | https://www.ams.usda.gov/market-news/egg-market-news-reports |
| USDA AMS: National Dairy Products Sales Report, butter (Datamart JSON, report 2993) | OFFICIAL STATISTIC (weekly weighted-average wholesale price, USD per lb) | https://mpr.datamart.ams.usda.gov/menu.do?path=Products%5CDairy%5CNational%20Dairy%20Products%20Sales%20Report |
| USDA AMS: Dairy Market News weekly report (PDF) | OFFICIAL MARKET REPORT (CME butter cash market as reprinted by USDA) | https://www.ams.usda.gov/market-news/dairy-market-news-weekly-printed-reports |
| USDA NASS: Chickens and Eggs (monthly, text) | OFFICIAL STATISTIC (supply: layers and table egg production) | https://usda.library.cornell.edu/concern/publications/fb494842n |
| USDA ERS Food Price Outlook (CPI forecast table) | FOOD-COST INDICATOR (official forecast table) | https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook |