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The USDA reports market prices, volume, and other market data. The market news web site is located here

All market new stories have a code word to identify the report. These code words are typically a two character location code, followed by an underscore, a two character commodity code, and finally a three digit report code. The exception are the livestock mandatory reports. The first two characters of that code are LM.

Example searches

• To display only the mandatory reports, enter LM in the search field
• To display all the livestock reports, enter %LS in the search field
• To display all the poultry reports, enter %PY in the search field
• To display all the feeder cattle reports, enter %ls7in the search field

Search items can be entered in either upper or lower case. The "%" (percent sign) tells the search engine to match any characters before the remainder of the string