The document discusses the Livestock Mandatory Reporting (LMR) program for pork, including its history, scope, and key functions of the USDA’s market news division. It outlines the types of data collected, the reporting process, and the purchase types related to swine sales, emphasizing the importance of timely, unbiased information for stakeholders. The document also provides contact information and resources for further details on LMR reporting.

1. Livestock Mandatory
Reporting (LMR)
Pork Management Conference, New Orleans, LA
June 18, 2015

2. • History
• Scope of LMR reporting
• Swine definitions / purchase types
• Comments, questions

3. History
• Original LMR Act of 1999 included Beef,
Cattle, Lamb, and Swine; to re-authorize
every 5 years
• Became effective on January 30, 2001
• Statutory authority lapsed in 2005
• Re-auth. from 2006-2010
• 2013 LMR Pork
• Re-auth. by September 30, 2015

4. • The primary function of the Livestock,
Poultry, and Grain Market News Division
(LPGMN) of the Livestock, Poultry, and
Seed Program (LPS) is to compile and
disseminate information that will aid
producers, consumers, and distributors
in the sale and purchase of livestock,
meat, poultry, eggs, grains, and their
related products regionally, nationally
and internationally.
• Collect, analyze and disseminate timely,
unbiased information

5. Who reports?
• FSIS packers (annual): 125,000 cattle;
75,000 lambs; 100,000 swine per plant,
200,000 combined sows/boars at
multiple locations
• AMS looks at the FSIS actual slaughter
data annually to determine who may be
falling in or out of the reporting
thresholds (avg. in a 5 year period)

6. Data
• AMS receives between 30,000-50,000
LMR records daily
• 2 offices, St. Joseph, MO & Des Moines, IA
• 14 market reporters, 3 supervisors
• 5 auditors, 1 Compliance Manager
• All LMR programming done by
contractor (maintenance and annual
enhancements)

7. Forms
http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/LMRAdditionalInstructions

8. LMR Swine
• 23 Companies
• 45 Plants
• 19 States
• 20 daily reports released
• 102 reports released every week
LMR:
379/week; 1642/month; 19755/year

10. Reports
• Regulations state we will currently release reports at specific
time frames:
• Daily Purchase (4 reports/1 nat’l, 3 regions):
I. 8:00 am – prior day report, includes swine purchased from
midnight to midnight the previous day (200, 204, 207, 208
butchers) (230, 231, 232, 233 sows/boars)
II. 11:00 am – AM purchase, includes purchases between
midnight and 9:30 am of the current reporting day (202, 205,
209, 211)
III. 3:00 pm – PM purchase, incudes purchases between midnight
and 1:30 pm of the current day (203, 206, 210, 212)
• 10:00 am – Slaughter report, includes data from swine
slaughtered the previous day (201, 213, 215)
• Weekly 250 and 214
***records imported one hour prior to report release time***

11. Purchase types/definitions

12. Current Purchase Types

14. Datamart
• http://mpr.datamart.ams.usda.gov/

15. Swine Dashboard
http://mpr.datamart.ams.usda.gov/amsdashboard/swine/Swine_Dashboard_Option_1.html

16. Contact Information
Taylor Cox, LMR Chief
USDA - AMS - Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News
515-284-4460
Visit us online at:
https://www.marketnews.usda.gov/mnp/ls-home

20. Sales Types
• Negotiated: A sale that represents the “spot”
market. Delivery parameters, boxes within 14
days of agreement, combos within 10 days of
agreement.
• Forward Sale: Designed to capture transactions
that occur outside the traditional negotiated
window. The delivery is beyond the negotiated
window. Price determined by buyer-seller
agreement.
• Formula Marketing Arrangement: Establishes
prices off of publicly available quoted prices (ex.
Market reports).