Dow Jones Newswires is making changes to its livestock market coverage starting Tuesday, February 21. Livestock Highlights will run once per day, in the afternoon, bringing it in line with daily Grain Highlights. The morning highlights will cease publication after Friday, February 17. Weekly U.S. Retail Meat data will no longer be published after Thursday, February 16. Technical Analysis on livestock will no longer be published daily after February 17.

Market movements and analysis pertaining to USDA Cold Storage, USDA Cattle on Feed, USDA Hogs & Pigs and USDA Cattle Inventory will be covered in Market Talks and short stories after February 21. Standalone forecast tables and forecast preview stories will no longer be published for this data. Once the data are released, we will publish headlines and an analysis of the results, focusing on the most important data.

Other daily and weekly livestock data and news fixtures will continue unchanged, including data published from USDA "lockups." Existing market commentary codes will continue to be applied to the relevant livestock Market Talks.

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February 20, 2017 17:24 ET (22:24 GMT)