USDA migrates data archive to new website, dropping Cornell's Mann Library

Source: Reuters

September 30, 2025 6:34 PM EDT Updated 10 hours ago


CHICAGO, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Archived crop and livestock reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture were set to transfer to a new government website on Wednesday with the agency's existing online archive, hosted by Cornell University's Mann Library, decommissioned, the USDA and a Cornell official said on Tuesday.

The USDA's online Economics, Statistics and Market Information System, an archive of USDA reports dating to 1973, will move to the USDA's National Agricultural Library.

Two reports released by the USDA on Tuesday -- its quarterly grain stocks and annual small grains reports -- said archived editions were stored on the legacy Cornell site. But a Cornell representative said the USDA reports would no longer be available from the Mann Library site starting on October 1.

Many of the USDA's major market-sensitive reports, including its monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report, a key reference for the grains trade, had already moved on Tuesday to the new website. The new platform also includes reports from the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service on quarterly U.S. grain stocks, cattle on feed, and weekly U.S. crop progress reports, among other topics.

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