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    • Information and Guidance on the Domestic Beef Market

    Metadata Updated: April 21, 2025

    This memorandum provides information and guidance to State agencies and School Food Authorities (SFAs) on the current status of the domestic beef market. Despite an increase in wholesale prices for ground beef, the USDA is continually encouraging schools to purchase and use beef in their menus as a good source of lean protein. The USDA is also offering guidance on ways that schools can ensure the resources needed to provide students with healthy, balanced meals.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025

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    Harvested from USDA JSON

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025
    Publisher Food and Nutrition Service
    Maintainer
    Identifier USDA-FNS-78
    Data Last Modified 2014-09-22
    Rights Public
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 005:84
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id d578c590-73c4-4963-b7fb-7e1482aa1194
    Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
    Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Program Code 005:054
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash e7321222ae8a526e73f036aeebb3b4af7d3ffef780b43cf129a98a786b3ff646
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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