Mandatory Price Reporting

Meat and poultry processors report the prices they pay for their live animals, as well as the quantity of meat and poultry exported and the prices they receive for exported products. Federal regulations govern these price and export reporting functions.

AMI Memos/Informational Memorandum

AMS FINAL RULE: Livestock Mandatory Reporting: Reestablishment and Revision of the Reporting Regulation for Swine, Cattle, Lamb, and Boxed Beef (05/19/2008)

South Dakota Price Reporting (May 2007)


Correspondence
Livestock and Mandatory Reporting: Missouri Packers & Stockyards Act Letter to Hon. Ann Veneman (06/18/2001)


Government Documents
Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of 1999

AMS Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of 1999

Livestock Mandatory Reporting Re-Authorization ActExport Sales Reporting Requirements: Proposed Rule (November 3, 2003)

Livestock Mandatory Reporting: Amendment To Revise Lamb Reporting Definitions; Final Rule (September 2, 2004)

Reestablishment and Revision of the Reporting Regulation for Swine, Cattle, Lamb, and Boxed Beef; Proposed Rule (August 8, 2007)

Mandatory Reporting Forms Only

Export Sales Reporting Instructions



Federal Register
FAS Federal Register Proposed Rule: Export Sale Reporting Requirements (March 3, 2000)


Testimony
AMI Testimony Before Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, June 22, 2005

AMI, Livestock Groups Urge Adoption of Consensus Reauthorization In Testimony to the Senate Agriculture Committee


Press Releases/Statements
AMI News Story: U.S. Court of Appeals Reverses Lower Court Ruling in Schumacher Case, January 30, 2008

AMI News Story: AMI Testifies in Seante Agriculture Hearing on Mandatory Price Reporting, June 22, 2005

AMI News Story: AMI Proposes to Include Boxed Lamb Cut Sales in Mandatory Reporting Regulations, October 24, 2003


Links
ERS report on Mandatory Price Reporting