The article introduces a website called Food Prices Today that tracks and visualizes daily US food prices using data from the USDA, including benchmark wholesale prices and average retail prices for various commodities.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) publishes daily food price data for about 290 commodities on:<p>- what growers were paid at shipping point<p>- what buyers paid at the big city wholesale markets<p>- what prices supermarkets advertised in their weekly ads<p>This data comes out as dozens of separate text reports and PDFs, one per market, with no history and no way to see how prices change over time.<p>I think this should be public data that is easy to access and understand, so I built an open-source tracker for it.<p>Github: <a href="https://github.com/kadoa-org/food-price-monitor" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kadoa-org/food-price-monitor</a>
# Food Prices Today: US Produce Price Charts from USDA Data
Source: [https://www.kadoa.com/food-prices](https://www.kadoa.com/food-prices)
## US food price monitor
Daily US food prices from USDA, from the farm gate to the supermarket ad\.
Latest report18 Sep 2026\. Updated every business day\.
## Benchmark prices
[Onions](https://www.kadoa.com/food-prices/commodity/onions)Idaho Falls shipping point
\+100%past year
$15\.00 to $18\.00per 50 lb sack
[Potatoes](https://www.kadoa.com/food-prices/commodity/potatoes)Idaho Falls shipping point
\+68%past year
$17\.00 to $20\.00per 50 lb carton
$22\.00 to $24\.00per 5 kg/11 lb flat
$10\.00 to $18\.00per flats 8 1\-lb containers with lid
$23\.25 to $27\.25per cartons 2 layer
[Eggs](https://www.kadoa.com/food-prices/commodity/eggs)New York wholesale
\-64%past year
$0\.82per dozen
## Biggest moves this week
Wholesale benchmarks, compared with a week earlier\.
## Retail prices
What US supermarkets advertised this week, averaged across stores\.
ItemAd priceA year earlierChange, 1 yearStores[Avocados](https://www.kadoa.com/food-prices/commodity/avocados)Hass$0\.94$1\.10\-15%3,893[Eggs](https://www.kadoa.com/food-prices/commodity/eggs)Large Brown, Shell Egg, 12, Pasture Raised$6\.83$6\.44\+6\.1%3,159[Onions](https://www.kadoa.com/food-prices/commodity/onions)Yellow$2\.47$2\.43\+1\.6%2,135[Potatoes](https://www.kadoa.com/food-prices/commodity/potatoes)Russet$3\.18$2\.65\+20%3,807[Strawberries](https://www.kadoa.com/food-prices/commodity/strawberries)$2\.97$3\.16\-6\.0%1,714[Tomatoes](https://www.kadoa.com/food-prices/commodity/tomatoes)Plum Type \(Roma\)$1\.20$1\.12\+7\.1%2,318
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