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USDA is overhauling regional cash fed cattle reporting as a persistent data blackout spreads across major feeding states, implementing directives under two White House Executive Orders aimed at livestock competition and rancher support.
Beginning with the afternoon market reports on Monday, Oct. 26, 2026, USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) will begin publishing an aggregated cash cattle regional report that combines data from Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas.
The goal: restore vital price transparency to the Southern Plains and Western feeding belts, where shrinking negotiated cash trade had caused published USDA market reports to go completely dark under federal confidentiality restrictions.
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