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Jul 03, 2013
In a letter to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) this week, ASA expressed its support for NASS to conduct a new information collection, the 2013 Current Agricultural Industrial Reports (CAIR), specifically the M311J and M311K Oilseed and Oilseed Products reports.
These reports were previously conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau provided data on production and usage trends in the domestic fats, oils and protein meal markets. The industry utilized the reports in many ways, and they are important to government agencies, private industry and futures markets. ASA noted in its letter that the information contained in these reports does not exist elsewhere, except in incomplete form, and cannot be easily replicated by another entity.
ASA has led the effort to reinstate the reports, after the Census Bureau announced in 2012 that is would terminate the two reports, along with other CAIRs. ASA led a coalition of other agricultural and commodity groups that were impacted by the termination of the CAIRs to urge NASS to take over the reports.
