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
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; prose not yet written. The pork cutout comes from the AMS Datamart with the full reported history, so this baseline carries real year-over-year comparisons. The hog inventory is the June 2026 quarterly report; the September report had not been released when this capture ran. 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/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 |