Legislation introduced in Congress last year aimed to increase the level of negotiated cash trade in U.S. cattle markets, leading the cattle industry to create a voluntary framework – known as the 75% rule – that aims to increase frequency and price transparency in cattle feeding and packing regions across the country. With the third quarter of the year now complete, Elliott Dennis, assistant professor and livestock marketing economist in the Department of Agricultural Economics at UNL, joins the podcast.

Read more at https://cap.unl.edu/livestock/third-quarterly-report-levels-negotiated-trade-region-under-industry%E2%80%99s-75-rule.