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(Bloomberg) -- The Biden administration introduced a public database on payment terms for private cattle sales, designed to give producers more leverage in negotiating with the four meatpacking giants that dominate US beef processing. The share of fed cattle purchased through such markets has fallen from 52% in 2005 to 20% in 2021, according to USDA data. [Extracted from the article]

Brazil's 2022 soybean exports were down 10.1% from their record export program in 2021 of 86.6 MMT, as last year's drought reduced exportable supply. Agricultural futures finished 2022 on a strong note with fund managers long corn, soybeans and soybean meal - likely window dressing their positions into year-end to pad their profits and, by extension, their bonuses. U.S. season-to-date soybean exports are down 7% vs last year which some believe could support USDA dropping U.S. soybean exports 50 mb. [Extracted from the article]

August placements in the cattle on feed report continued the trend of recent months of large placements of lightweight cattle with fewer heavy placements. The latest USDA Cattle on Feed report shows that the September 1 feedlot inventory was 11.279 million head, 100.4 percent of last year. Both feedlot inventories and cattle slaughter have remained stubbornly high this year due to drought forced movement of cattle out of the country. [Extracted from the article]

Last week USDA published the July Cattle Inventory, which showed lower year-over-year inventories for most reported categories. Graph: https://www.farmprogress.com/sites/cet.com/files/7-27-22%20Mitchell072522a.png Total cattle inventories totaled 98.8 million, falling below 100 million for the first time since 2015, when inventories totaled 98.1 million. [Extracted from the article]

Markets plunge lower following July WASDE In Tuesday's World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report, USDA trimmed production estimates for 2022 soybean production on lower acreage reported in the June 30 Acreage Report. USDA did not increase 2022 U.S. corn production estimates by as much as markets were expecting, but the U.S. is still on track to harvest the fourth largest crop on record. - Bloomberg Expanded cover crop insurance USDA's Risk Management Agency has officially expanded or streamlined in over 1,500 counties to double crop soybeans and sorghum behind wheat. [Extracted from the article]

USDA's Cattle Inventory report showed Iowa's cattle herd grew more than 4% in 2021. Cattle inventory trends within Iowa USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service recently released its Jan. 1 county-level estimates of all cattle and calves, beef cows that have calved, and milk cows that have calved. If producers keep growing Iowa beef cow numbers, pasture acres per cow would drop. [Extracted from the article]

The latest USDA Cattle on Feed revealed a March 1 feedlot inventory of 12.163 million head, a record level for March for the data series back to 1996. February feedlot marketings were 1.825 million head, up 4.9 percent year over year and the largest February marketings total since 2000. Feedlots will have plenty of cattle to market for another few months, but tighter placements are ahead and feedlot production will decline in the second half of the year. [Extracted from the article]

"If that language is not changed, a lot of our cattle won't qualify for that livestock forage program, so my ask is to reevaluate that." Organized by Sen. John Hoeven, the group included North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring, Farm Service Agency Administrator Zachary Ducheneaux and Acting Risk Management Service Administrator Richard Flournoy. "There's a livestock forage program that contains language there specifically for rate of gain on the cattle and livestock, and that throws some cattle out of the loop", he noted. [Extracted from the article]

During the next several weeks, USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service will conduct two major midyear surveys: the June Agricultural Survey and the June Area Survey. NASS will analyze the survey information and publish the results in a series of USDA reports, including the annual Acreage and quarterly Grain Stocks reports, both to be released June 30. [Extracted from the article]

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Highlights from the article: In April, the USDA announced it will make changes to the mandatory Animal Disease Traceability (ADT) program concerning the type of ear tags used on beef cattle, dairy cattle, and bison. The USDA is not expanding the scope of the ADT program and these remain the only animals, at least for now, to which the mandatory rules are applicable.