"The USDA’s turnover and reduction in staffing have been negatively affecting its reporting and data collection, said Kester, who is also a rancher from Parkfield, Calif., and a former president of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association." www.marketwatch.com/story/this-m...
This may be the real reason USDA made a huge revision to its beef-export sales dataIt’s ‘like driving one more nail into the proverbial coffin,’ says a rancher about the recent deterioration in U.S. agriculture datawww.marketwatch.com