The American Sheep Industry Association continues to press USDA for a resolution regarding Livestock Mandatory Reporting rules and regulations. In addition to filing comments on behalf of the industry for updated changes proposed by USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service, ASI has been meeting with USDA’s Market News branch on the absence of key lamb reports since early February. The Associations says the lack of formula carcass price reporting places the sheep industry in a blind position regarding lamb trades based upon quality. Lamb price reporting has been absent since the purchase of one lamb processor by another this winter. The Association says that creates an inability for one the largest lamb processors to share public data because it operates as a cooperative. The sheep industry requested that AMS use a more literal interpretation of "packer-owned" lambs, using the regulatory definition for lamb reporting, and allow the processor to participate in the reporting program.
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