# USDA Adds Regional Cattle Report

USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) will begin publishing an additional regional cash cattle report on October 26, 2026, using existing Livestock Mandatory Reporting data from Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Kansas. The report is intended to improve price transparency as negotiated cash trade declines. AMS says the change creates no new reporting requirement for covered packers, and the announcement includes no contract or solicitation.

- Agricultural market-data and analytics contractors can assess whether the expanded regional reporting creates relevant future service needs; no procurement opportunity is announced in this signal.
- Covered packers do not face a new reporting requirement under this change.
- Firms serving agricultural market-information programs can follow AMS’s market-information updates for future needs, as indicated in the announcement.

**Jurisdictions:** federal
**Published:** October 20, 2026

### Government Entities
- U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)

### Key Quotes
> Maintaining reliable and transparent price information is critical to a well-functioning cattle market. We are making these changes to address those challenges and make the best use possible of the market information that AMS gathers.
> — Brooke L. Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture

### Sources
- [Following President Trump's Executive Orders, USDA Updates its Cash Cattle Market Reports to Advance Transparency | USDA](https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2026/10/20/following-president-trumps-executive-orders-usda-updates-its-cash-cattle-market-reports-advance) - USDA