Vesper has added forecasts on 1,800+ additional price series, covering both Vesper's own data and third-party sources. All forecasts run up to 52 weeks ahead.

What's new:

• 1,800+ new Vesper Forecasts now live

• Coverage includes US price series added through recent partnerships, European series, and Vesper Price Index benchmarks

• All forecasts run up to 52 weeks ahead with confidence intervals

• This is a major expansion for US-sourced data in particular, where forward price visibility was previously limited

Why this matters:

Buying decisions are forward-looking, but most price tools only show history. Vesper Forecasts give you a forecasted price for planning purchases, reviewing budgets, or deciding whether to lock in now or wait. With 1,800+ additional series covered, buyers in categories like grains, oils, meat, and packaging can access forward views for both US and European markets. And because forecasts cover third-party sources too, you get forward visibility on the same benchmarks your suppliers reference.

How to Use It:

• Price Forecast widget: add any covered series to see the 52-week forward projection

How to access?

Add the Price Forecast widget to new or existing dashboards using the search function, or contact your Customer Success Manager at [email protected].

Commodity Copilot is now accessible from any dashboard through a side panel. Ask questions as you work with your data.

What's new:

• Copilot side panel is available on every dashboard. Open it without leaving your current view.

• See your prices, charts, and reports on the left. Ask Copilot about them on the right.

• Spot something in the data you want to understand? Just ask.

Why this matters:

Before this update, using Copilot meant navigating to a separate page. Now you can look at a price move in your chart and ask what's driving it without losing your place. Data and interpretation, side by side.

How to access?

Open the Copilot side panel using the icon in the top-right of any dashboard, or contact your Customer Success Manager at [email protected].

Import/Export, Supply & Demand, and Futures widgets each had multiple versions for different views of the same data. These are now consolidated into a single widget per data type. For example, where you previously had three separate Futures widgets, you now have one that covers all views.

What's new

• Toggle between table and graph views within each widget

• Switch between historical and forward data without leaving the widget

• All controls are built into the widget, so one widget now does the job of several

Your existing widgets have been automatically replaced with the new versions, using the same parameters you had selected. Nothing changes to your dashboards. If you want different views side by side, you can duplicate a widget and set each one to a different view.

Why this matters

Where you previously needed multiple widgets to see the same data in different formats, one widget now covers it. Dashboards stay cleaner, and you spend less time setting up views.

On mobile, the consolidated widgets will follow at a later stage. For now, the previous versions remain available there.

Vesper now includes 286 new price series from 13 USDA MARS reports, one of the most widely referenced public pricing sources in US agricultural markets. This is our largest single USDA expansion to date.

What's New:

• Vegetables & Pulses: 107 new price series including potatoes, tomatoes, bell peppers, onions, carrots, broccoli, squash, black beans, pinto beans, lentils, chickpeas, and yellow peas

• Fruits: 80 new price series covering apples (Gala, Honeycrisp, Fuji, Cosmic Crisp and more), oranges, grapes, strawberries, peaches, pears, bananas, kiwi, and watermelon, including organic variants

• Meat & Poultry: 39 new price series for beef primal cuts (ribeye, tenderloin, strip loin, chuck, round), lamb (rack, leg, shoulder), turkey (whole, breast, drumsticks, wings), hog, and cattle live/dressed weight prices

• Food Ingredients: 29 new price series for eggs (caged and free-range across multiple sizes and regions) and ethanol

• Grains & Feed: 14 new price series for alfalfa, corn (food and feed grade), soybean, DDGS, corn gluten, cottonseed, canola meal, and blood meal

• Oils & Fats: 8 new price series including choice white grease and animal fat derivatives

• Herbs & Spices: 5 new price series for jalapeño, serrano, poblano, anaheim chili peppers, and garlic

• Chemicals: 3 new price series

• Sugar: 1 new price series

See the complete product list for all 286 series.

Why It Matters:

USDA MARS reports are among the most commonly referenced pricing benchmarks in US agricultural markets. These 286 series bring that coverage directly into Vesper, so you can track US prices for fresh produce, proteins, grains, feed ingredients, and eggs alongside your existing European and global series, all in one place.

How to Use It:

• Prices Widget: Search for specific products (e.g., "beef ribeye" or "apples Honeycrisp") to bookmark USDA MARS prices alongside your existing series

• Price Comparison: Compare USDA US prices with European or global equivalents for with different prodcut names

• Cost Models: Add USDA ingredient prices to your cost models for a more complete picture of US-sourced product costs

How to access?

Add to new or existing dashboards using the search function, or contact your Customer Success Manager at [email protected] for any questions.

Vesper now covers 121 monthly packaging price series across EU and UK markets, including 76 products created for this expansion. Coverage spans paper, plastics, glass, and metals.

What's new:

• 121 monthly packaging price series, now live
• 76 newly created packaging products
• Materials covered: paper and cardboard (corrugated, cartonboard, kraft), plastics (PET, HDPE, flexible films), glass (bottles, containers), metals (tinplate, aluminium)
• Geographic scope: EU and UK markets

Why this matters:

Packaging is one of the largest indirect cost categories for food manufacturers. Price swings in paperboard or PET can move margins just as much as ingredient costs. With independent benchmarks for packaging materials, you can track costs over time and verify supplier proposals against market data.

How to Use It:

• Prices Widget: search by packaging material, product type, or market
• Price Comparison: compare packaging prices across materials or regions
• Cost Models: add packaging cost lines alongside ingredient costs in a single model

How to access?

Add to new or existing dashboards using the search function, or contact your Customer Success Manager at [email protected].

Stay on top of market developments across nuts, seeds, and dried fruits with a dedicated news feed now live in Vesper.

What's new

• New Nuts, Seeds & Dried Fruits news feed available in the News section

• Global and local coverage across key origin countries

• Topics include supply disruptions, harvest updates, trade flows, regulatory changes, and demand trends

• Filtered and curated for relevance, cutting through the noise

Why this matters

Nuts, seeds, and dried fruits are highly exposed to origin-specific risks, climate impacts, and trade dynamics. At the same time, public price transparency is often limited.

This news feed fills the gap. It gives you context around market movements, helping you understand what's driving prices and anticipate volatility before it shows up in the numbers.

Vesper has added 205 price series from SNIIM, Mexico's national food price information system. This update includes 168 products that are new to the platform.

What's new:

• 205 new price series from SNIIM (Sistema Nacional de Información e Integración de Mercados)
• 168 newly created products
• Coverage by category:
  • Fruits: 86 series
  • Vegetables & Pulses: 76 series
  • Herbs & Spices: 24 series
  • Grains & Feed: 9 series
  • Nuts, Seeds & Dried Fruit: 6 series
  • Beverages: 2 series
  • Sugar: 2 series

Why this matters:

Mexico is a major origin market for fresh produce, herbs, and specialty ingredients sourced by North American and European food manufacturers. SNIIM data gives buyers an official government reference for regional spot prices. Useful for verifying quotes, tracking seasonal price patterns, and benchmarking cross-border sourcing for categories like avocados, chilies, tomatoes, and tropical fruit.

How to Use It:

• Prices Widget: search by product name or filter by Mexico as origin market
• Price Comparison: compare SNIIM prices against other regional sources for the same commodity
• Cost Models: add Mexican produce prices as inputs to ingredient cost models

How to access?

Add to new or existing dashboards using the search function, or contact your Customer Success Manager at [email protected].

Upload your own budgets, purchase prices, and supplier quotes directly into Vesper. Your internal data now lives alongside global market intelligence, all in one place.

What's new

• Add your own data via manual entry or CSV upload

• Store budgets, contract prices, supplier quotes, or any internal pricing data

• Unlimited series and products with no caps on what you can bring in

• All your uploads organized in a new dedicated "Your Data" section

• Access your data in the Prices widget, Price Comparison, and Cost Models

• Use the full Vesper toolbox on your own data: visualize spreads, calculate averages, and add notes directly in graphs

• Use your data as inputs for cost models and custom formulas

Why this matters

Vesper already lets you build custom benchmarks using formulas and cost models. Now you can go further. Bring in your actual purchase history, budget targets, and supplier offers to see the full picture.

• Track performance: Compare what you paid against what the market did

• Spot opportunities: See where your prices diverge from benchmarks over time

• Centralize everything: Stop toggling between spreadsheets and Vesper. Make it your single source of truth.

Your data stays yours

Everything you upload is siloed, secure, and never shared with other users or used in any Vesper Price Index. Your competitive information remains private.

You can now compare your cost models directly against actual prices and other cost models in the Price Comparison widget.

What's new

• Cost models now appear as selectable series in the Price Comparison widget

• Select cost models from the product dropdown, labeled with their cost model name

• View cost model historical data alongside multiple other cost models, price series, or any combination of both

• Same visualization and interaction as product prices (line charts, tooltips, trends)

• Note: Notes cannot be added to cost models

Why this matters

For finished goods, this bridges cost modeling and price analysis:

• Compare different recipe options to find the most cost-effective formulation

• Validate actual paid prices against theoretical cost models to spot inefficiencies

• Track variance trends over time to identify negotiation opportunities

For commodity and ingredient buyers, this opens up new ways to analyze contract structures:

• Build indices for weighted baskets and compare against other indices or your own prices

• Model multiplier or fixed cost-plus structures on top of any benchmark