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Clear your widget selections instantly with the new "Deselect all" button in dropdown menus. Start fresh analysis without manually removing each selection or dealing with cluttered views.
What it does: One click clears all active selections in a widget What you can do: Reset widgets to empty state for clean analysis Why it matters: Faster workflow, cleaner screens, less clicking
Find it in the dropdown menus across most widgets.
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300 new daily price series covering major beef, pork, and lamb products
Real-time daily updates to ensure you have the latest market data
Coverage across different cuts, grades, and products
Easily track and monitor daily price movements for all meat categories
Quick access to historical trends and current market conditions
Ideal widget for efficient price monitoring
Incorporate new meat price data into custom recipe breakdowns
Build cost models that reflect your product’s market pricing
Create detailed analyses for food service, retail, and manufacturing applications
Compare meat prices against other commodity products
Identify correlations and patterns between different protein markets
The new meat price series are immediately to users with Meats&Poultry in their commodity package. To begin using this data:
Use the Prices Widget to explore individual price series
Use the Price Comparison to analyze relationships between meat and other commodities
Access Cost Models to incorporate the new data into your custom analyses
For questions about the new meat price series or assistance with implementation, please contact our support team at: [email protected]
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Summary: Vesper has launched Cost Models, a powerful new feature that transforms individual commodity benchmarks into complete product cost insights. This capability allows food manufacturers to combine weighted commodity benchmarks with standardized non-ingredient costs to build accurate product pricing models, delivering unprecedented visibility into true product economics.
What's New:
Build complete product cost models by combining multiple commodity benchmarks with precise weightings
Access industry-standard non-ingredient costs (labor, manufacturing, overhead) specific to your region
Choose from our template library for common food products or create custom models
Track how each component contributes to your total product cost with automatic updates whenever source prices change
Why It Matters: With record-high volatility across food commodities, understanding how ingredient changes impact finished products is critical for maintaining margins. Cost Models provide complete cost structure visibility for your entire organization: procurement teams can verify supplier price increases, finance can track margin impacts across product portfolios, and sales teams can justify price adjustments to customers with independently verified data. Non-ingredient costs can represent up to 47% of total product costs—a critical component that's now visible alongside your commodity benchmarks.
How to Use It:
Access Cost Models through the main dashboard menu
Choose between starting with a template or building a model from scratch
Select ingredients from your available commodities and assign precise weightings
Add country-specific non-ingredient costs by selecting your industry and location
Save your model to track cost evolution over time as prices update automatically
Related Features: Cost Models integrates seamlessly with Vesper's existing capabilities:
Individual commodity price benchmarks (VPI, Partner prices, and Public benchmarks found in prices widgets)
Incorporate into your own custom dashboards
Coming in Q3 2025: Forecasting capabilities for your cost models
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Summary: Vesper has expanded its news coverage with two dedicated categories: Vegetables & Pulses and Fruits. These new sections deliver focused, timely information on fresh produce markets, including harvest conditions, logistics updates, weather disruptions, pricing trends, and market developments.
What's New:
Dedicated news category for Vegetables & Pulses
Dedicated news category for Fruits
Comprehensive coverage of global fresh produce markets
Integration with existing news filtering and alert capabilities
Why It Matters: Fresh produce represents critical input markets for many of our core users. These new categories significantly deepen our current coverage, which has primarily focused on price benchmarks until now. By adding dedicated news streams, users gain deeper insights and earlier warning signals about market developments before they impact prices. This expanded coverage provides essential visibility into volatile produce markets, helping users anticipate supply disruptions, track pricing pressures, and identify emerging trends. This expansion responds directly to user feedback requesting more comprehensive coverage across the complete ingredient spectrum.
How to Use It:
Find the new categories in the News section of the platform
Set up custom alerts for specific commodities within these categories
Filter news by these categories to focus on produce-specific updates
Related Features: These news categories complement Vesper's existing offerings:
Smart news filtering and aggregation
Custom news alerts
Fruits and Vegetables price benchmarks on the Dashboard
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Summary: Vesper has expanded its oils & fats coverage with a new weekly Vesper Price Index (VPI) benchmark for Crude Shea Butter (FOB Tema) from Ghana. This proprietary benchmark, exclusive to Vesper, provides a reliable, independent price reference for an increasingly strategic commodity in food manufacturing.
What's New:
Weekly VPI price benchmark for Crude Shea Butter
FOB Tema delivery basis from Ghana—the world's largest shea butter exporting country
Full integration with existing oils & fats dashboards and pricing tools
Why It Matters: As cocoa prices continue to surge, we've seen increased demand from our user base for alternatives like Shea Butter, which has emerged as a critical cost-effective substitute for cocoa butter. This exclusive VPI benchmark responds directly to user feedback, delivering essential price transparency for those seeking different compositions to limit the effects of cocoa volatility on end product applications. Having Vesper's independent benchmark helps verify supplier pricing and supports more confident negotiations during this period of volatility in cocoa markets.
How to Use It:
Find the new Shea Butter (Crude) benchmark in the pricing widgets section
Add it to the price comparison widget for side-by-side analysis with cocoa butter prices
Incorporate this benchmark into your custom cost models to evaluate how chocolate formulation costs change when substituting with shea butter
Monitor weekly updates to identify emerging trends and optimize buying decisions
Related Features: This benchmark complements Vesper's existing offerings:
Cocoa butter price benchmarks
Vegetable oil price benchmarks
Cost modeling for ingredient substitution analysis
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Summary: Vesper has strengthened its dairy portfolio with a new weekly Vesper Price Index (VPI) benchmark for Cheddar Curd (CIF Southeast Asia). This proprietary benchmark fills a critical gap in regional cheese trade visibility, especially for Oceania-origin products moving into key Asian markets.
What's New:
Exclusive weekly VPI price benchmark for Cheddar Curd with CIF Southeast Asia delivery basis
First reliable price reference in a region lacking formal cheese futures markets
Full integration with existing dairy dashboards and pricing tools
Why It Matters: With no futures market for cheese in the APAC, market participants have struggled to benchmark pricing or implement effective hedging strategies. This exclusive VPI benchmark provides essential price transparency in a market where Oceania exports a significant share of its cheddar production to Asian buyers. By introducing this reference point, we're responding to the need for reliable pricing data in markets lacking formal pricing infrastructure.
How to Use It:
Find the new Cheddar Curd (CIF SEA) benchmark in the pricing widgets
Add it to price widgets to analyze spread between origin and destination markets
Track weekly updates to identify emerging trends in regional dairy trade flows
Related Features: This benchmark complements Vesper's existing offerings:
Global and regional cheese price benchmarks
Import/export widgets mapping supply and demand in trade flows
Price spread tool for cross-regional analysis
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Launching supplementary bi-weekly cocoa highlights from Vesper's in-house analytical team, complementing the regular market commentary from independent expert Martijn Bron. These additional reports focus on technical analysis, derivative pricing, and weather insights to support decision-making during unprecedented market volatility.
Why it Matters: With cocoa prices at historic highs, procurement teams need comprehensive market coverage. Our in-house analytical team now provides targeted analysis on alternate weeks to Martijn Bron's expert commentary, combining deep technical analysis with veteran market insights during this volatile period.
What's New:
Bi-weekly analysis from Vesper's analytical team focusing on:
Technical market indicators
Derivative pricing trends
Weather impact assessment
Supply chain disruptions
Cocoa coverage schedule:
Martijn Bron's expert market commentary
Alternating with Vesper's analytical team reports
CRA Cocoa weather reports published frequently
How to Use It:
Access Cocoa Highlights in the Market Analysis section on Vesper or the mobile app
Set up notifications to be alerted of any new releases
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Added daily Brazilian public prices from Instituto de Economia Agrícola (IEA), Brazil's leading agricultural economics institute, expanding our coverage of key food commodities with local market data.
Why it Matters: Brazil is a major global producer and price setter for multiple food commodities. Direct access to daily IEA data provides unprecedented visibility into local market dynamics, helping procurement teams better understand price movements at origin and optimize sourcing strategies.
What's New:
Daily price updates across multiple categories:
Meat & Poultry: Chicken cuts (breast fillet, thigh, leg quarters), Pork cuts (loin, steak), Beef cuts (ribeye, round eye, brisket)
Nuts & Seeds: Peanuts in shell
Vegetables: Garlic (violet, violet size 0.7)
Key features:
Daily frequency updates
4 years of historical data
Local market prices from São Paulo state
Original source data direct from IEA
How to Use It:
Access Brazilian benchmarks in the Prices widgets by searching for the product name or filtering by BR-IEA source
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Enhanced S&D Map visualization now provides Year-to-Date (YTD) comparisons across regions, enabling instant visual insights into global production, import/export, and stock trends and regional shifts.
Why it Matters:"If I were interested to see where growth in EU milk production is happening, this would really quickly show me that it is not happening in Ireland, Netherlands or France. It's great for presentations, as not having to click through all countries at the same time makes it ideal for regions or groups of countries."
Jasper Endlich, Dairy Market Analyst
How to Use It:
Find the World Map Widget in the S&D category
Select your metric and timeframe of interest
Compare countries and spot regional trends through color coding
Export directly into presentations or add to your custom dashboards
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