Notes from the data
Every article here is written against the observations this site has already ingested, and every figure in one carries the day it was read. Nothing is projected, rounded for effect or filled in where the data is silent.
What a published food-market figure is a price for, what it is not, and which questions it can settle.
Reading the data
Every observation here is a wholesale, producer or index figure from an official source, and none is a retail price. Which one you are reading changes what it means.
How official providers actually publish, and how to line their records up with what a kitchen buys.
Working with sources
On 2026-09-07 Canada's wholesale feed listed tomatoes under 29 pack descriptions. Why the site keeps every one apart, and how to pick the series you buy.
The observations behind these articles come from named public agencies and keep their source URL and publication date. The reference pages describe the machinery: methodology for what is and is not comparable, data sources for who publishes what, and the ingestion schedule for how often each one is checked.