The executive vice president of the Missouri Cattlemen’s Association says the Cattle Market Transparency Act of 2020 would provide producers the information needed to better market their cattle.

Mike Deering tells Brownfield formula transactions are not reported in the cattle market and that information is held by the USDA because of confidentiality guidelines…

“If you remove those, [you] get the data out there and stop the market suppression and allow us to know what the value of cattle is,” he said.

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