Records maintenance is an individual company decision.

For some transactions, products are shipped to the buyer, or under the buyer’s direction, directly from the plant. For other transactions, products are shipped to the buyer, or under the buyer’s direction, from a storage facility that is separate from the plant. In both cases, transportation costs associated with shipping the product to the buyer, or under the buyer’s direction, should not be added to the reported price.

• My Market News is the public-facing side of MARS. It is a program that serves to disseminate the information that Agricultural Marketing Service market reporters collect, record, and report.

• MARS is a standardized information management system that allows Market News to collect and distribute information from remote locations by combining all reporting functions into a single, user-managed platform.  MARS will facilitate the flow of data from the data provider to agency analysts and to the public, and allow users to create unique content.

Last updated:  April 22, 2021

If you need assistance or run into any problems during this process, please send email to: mymarketnews@usda.gov

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This guide is designed to aid users in adding reports as a favorite.  This can only be done from the landing page available for each report.  

• Saving reports allows you to access them more quickly than having to locate the report.  See the "locate a report" question for responses on how to find them.

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  • Logged in users can click on "Welcome [YOUR NAME HERE]" and then the screen will show your user preferences, saved queries, content subscription list, and content favorites.

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