Meat Price Spreads
USDA ERS data product tracking selected meat values and spreads across farm, wholesale, and retail stages.
The ERS data product page publishes downloadable machine-readable files for this source.
USDA ERS Meat Price SpreadsUSDA ERS Meat Price Spreads
- Official Source
- USDA Economic Research Service
Methodology
- Published ERS series combine the official historical monthly Meat Price Spreads file with current-period ERS CSV files from the same data product.
- Published rows are official ERS data items; Protein Report does not calculate derived spreads or ratios for these series.
- Values are stored in cents per pound of retail equivalent.
- ERS ARMS API data may be useful later for farm financial and cost-structure context, but it is separate from this Meat Price Spreads source.