Before national price reporting legislation passed through Congress in 1999, several states took the lead in passing their own versions.

See also Federal Price Disclosure

RULES

• State Price Disclosure - Nebraska
  The Legislature finds that family farmers and ranchers have been experiencing, with greater frequency, severely depressed livestock market prices. These market conditions are disproportionately affecting independent producers, which make up the majority of farms and ranches, and are threatening the economic stability of Nebraska's rural communities. More...
• State Price Disclosure - South Dakota
  The price discrimination provision of SB 95 was overturned in a July 1999 case brought by the American Meat Institute (AMI), an industry trade group. The law was interpreted as extending uniform pricing to other states "for livestock purchased for slaughter in this state," thereby interfering with interstate commerce." The price disclosure/reporting provision remains in effect, harmonized with the national price reporting legislation passed in 1999. More...
• State Price Disclosure - Iowa
  Senate File 436 related to practices involving the marketing of livestock by regulating certain purchase information and providing penalties. More...

More:

• Livestock Mandatory Price Reporting System: Report to the Secretary of Agriculture - by a review team of agriculture experts, July 2, 2001
• USDA's Agriculture Marketing Service has a page with Mandatory Livestock and Meat Market News and Prices
• USDA Mandatory Price Reporting web site
• Organization for Competitve Markets
• Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC)
• Cattlemens Legal Fund
• Campaign to Reclaim Rural America