On Jan. 31, USDA launched the pilot Cattle Contracts Library, as directed by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022. The goal — provide increased market transparency for cattle producers around the contract portion of the cattle market.
Getting to this working pilot library, though, wasn’t as easy as it sounds. Brittany Koop, Livestock Mandatory Reporting Compliance Program manager, explained the steps it took.
Cattle producers are used to looking up cattle markets that the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service provides…
