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Livestock Roundup: NASS Dropping July Cattle Report, Revising Other Data Collection

The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) announced this week that it will not publish the July cattle inventory report. Further it will dop the county estimates for livestock beginning this year – as well as the country crop estimates, which will impact the data available for commercial grain handling used for planning, and no longer produce the cotton objective yield report. Budget resources were cited as the reason. This comes after a previous announcement from NASS that it would drop the number of reported states under the January cattle report from 50 to 31 states. This came after a five-year review which regularly occurs after the Ag Census. Data published for the remaining 19 states will be all cattle and calves...

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