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AMS Releases Livestock Mandatory Reporting Database on Website

The Agricultural Marketing Service released a new publicly available web service for its Livestock Mandatory Reporting (LMR) system. According to AMS, this web service: offers easier access to all historical LMR data; follows commonly accepted technical standards for the automated…

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retrieval of historical data sets by end-users; and allows users to pull large amounts of customized data sets automatically or on-demand. AMS said the Livestock Mandatory Reporting program facilitates price discovery and "provides all market participants, both large and small, with comparable levels of market information for cattle, swine, sheep, beef and lamb meat." The web service is in the tools section at the bottom left of this webpage.