---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 1635f"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "1635f"
heading: "Mandatory packer reporting of boxed beef sales"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/1635f"
units:
  - "Chapter 38 — Distribution and Marketing of Agricultural Products"
  - "Subchapter II — Livestock Mandatory Reporting"
  - "Part B — Cattle Reporting"
---

# §1635f. Mandatory packer reporting of boxed beef sales

- (a) **Daily reporting—** The corporate officers or officially designated representatives of each [packer](/usc/7/1635d.md?p=5) processing plant shall report to the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) at least twice each reporting day (not less than once before, and once after, 12:00 noon Central Time) information on total boxed beef sales, including—
  - (1) the price for each lot of each negotiated boxed beef sale (determined by seller-buyer interaction and agreement), quoted in dollars per hundredweight (on a F.O.B. plant basis);
  - (2) the quantity for each lot of each sale, quoted by number of boxes sold; and
  - (3) information regarding the characteristics of each lot of each sale, including—
    - (A) the grade of beef (USDA Choice or better, USDA Select, or ungraded no-roll product);
    - (B) the cut of beef; and
    - (C) the trim specification.
- (b) **Publication—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) shall make available to the public the information required to be reported under [subsection (a)](#a) not less frequently than twice each reporting day.

## Source credit

(Aug. 14, 1946, ch. 966, title II, § 223, as added Pub. L. 106–78, title IX, § 911(2), Oct. 22, 1999, 113 Stat. 1193.)