7 CFR § 59.204 - Mandatory weekly reporting for swine.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t7/s59.204"
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legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "7 CFR § 59.204 - Mandatory weekly reporting for swine."
title_number: 7
title_name: "Agriculture"
section_number: "59.204"
section_name: "Mandatory weekly reporting for swine."
chapter_name: "AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE (STANDARDS, INSPECTIONS, MARKETING PRACTICES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE"
subchapter_number: "C"
subchapter_name: "REQUIREMENTS AND STANDARDS UNDER THE AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACT OF 1946 AND THE EGG PRODUCTS INSPECTION ACT"
part_number: "59"
part_name: "LIVESTOCK MANDATORY REPORTING"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "7 U.S.C. 1635-1636i."
regulatory_source: "73 FR 28633, May 16, 2008, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "59"
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# 59.204 Mandatory weekly reporting for swine.

(a) *Weekly noncarcass merit premium report.* Not later than 4 p.m. central time in accordance with § 59.10(b) on the first reporting day of each week, the corporate officers or officially designated representatives of each packer processing plant shall report to the Secretary a noncarcass merit premium report that lists:

(1) Each category of standard noncarcass merit premiums used by the packer in the prior slaughter week; and

(2) The dollar value (in dollars per hundred pounds of carcass weight) paid to producers by the packer, by category.

(b) *Premium list.* A packer shall maintain and make available to a producer, on request, a current listing of the dollar values (per hundred pounds of carcass weight) of each noncarcass merit premium used by the packer during the current or the prior slaughter week.

(c) *Publication.* The Secretary shall publish the information obtained under this subsection as soon as practicable, but not later than 5 p.m. central time, on the first reporting day of each week.