Category: Agribusiness, Meat, & Other Food
The DecisionNext Finished Goods: Index Report | January 2026
Key Insights: The Finished Goods Index has officially rolled over its base year from 2024 to 2025. Cheeseburger prices projected to rebound to 2025 highs by summer. Hot Dog index shows muted recovery into early summer. Chicken Sandwich forecast signals a spring rally after months of decline. ...
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Rising Dairy Herd Pressures U.S. Butter Prices
One of the major stories in dairy markets across 2025 was the precipitous fall in butter prices. For buyers, this kind of move can quickly reset negotiation leverage and near-term pricing assumptions. Since mid-July, the daily cash butter price has fallen from $2.60/lb to $1.40/lb in December (Fig. 1). These...
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The DecisionNext Finished Goods Index | Methodology
The Recipe for Better Food Cost Insight The new DecisionNext Finished Goods Index (FGI) gives you a monthly look at the ingredient costs behind value-added food products—all benchmarked to 2025 prices. Designed for retailers, foodservice operators, processors, and industry analysts, it shows how raw material prices are changing the cost...
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Make Better Beef Decisions
Markets are too volatile for procurement and sales decisions to be made without a consistent, data-driven process. Otherwise, emotional reactions can be our greatest enemy, and we do not even know it. At DecisionNext, we say, “If you do not measure, you can not improve.” If we are going to...
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