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Texas Agriculture Archive

February 7, 2003

The Agriculture Department has introduced a daily voluntary feedlot report for slaughter steers and heifers that became available Feb. 3.

The new report, the Central U.S. Daily Direct Feedlot Slaughter Cattle Report, supplements mandatory livestock reports by providing timely information on slaughter steer and heifer sales made by feedlots to packers.

Information collected from participating feedlots on a voluntary basis will be published each day at 3:30 p.m. (CST). When appropriate, additional reports may be published during active trading days to keep the livestock industry informed of the latest price information.

Initially the report will cover the Texas-Oklahoma Panhandle area and Nebraska. Coverage may be expanded to include additional states in the Central U.S. as quickly as contacts are established and a sufficient volume of information is collected.

This report is posted on the Agricultural Marketing Service's Livestock and Grain Market News web site at http://www.ams.usda.gov/lsg/mncs/index.htm.