FAS weekly export sales report adds beef

AgExporter, March, 2002

FAS began reporting on U.S. export sales of fresh, chilled and frozen muscle cuts of beef in its weekly U.S. Export Sales report on Dec. 13, 2001. The U.S. Export Sales report also includes certain grains, soybeans and soybean products, wheat and wheat products, rice, flaxseed, linseed oil, cotton and cottonseed products, and cattle hides and skins.

The weekly aggregated beef data will provide livestock producers, ranchers and others with up-to-date information to analyze foreign market conditions and consumer demand. Producers will be able to use the data to make economic forecast decisions on the flow of beef into both domestic and export markets. Export sales reporting is mandated by Section 602 of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978.