Publication
Pork Monitor
Restaurants, barbecue businesses, and caterers facing a supplier's price claim on pork. 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.
- 25 October 2026Issue 1: October 2026Data run 2026-10-18T145155Zpublished
- 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/WPU0132 |
| USDA AMS: National Weekly Pork Report FOB Plant, comprehensive (Datamart report 2680) | OFFICIAL STATISTIC (weekly cutout and primal values under mandatory price reporting, USD per cwt) | https://mymarketnews.ams.usda.gov/viewReport/2680 |
| USDA NASS: Quarterly Hogs and Pigs (text) | OFFICIAL STATISTIC (supply: hog inventory by class and weight group) | https://usda.library.cornell.edu/concern/publications/rj430453j |
| 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: Weekly Pork and Beef Variety Meat Report (PDF) | OFFICIAL MARKET REPORT (weekly narrative and variety meat prices; retained, not parsed) | https://www.ams.usda.gov/market-news/weekly-pork-reports |