; or (B) a specified number of livestock over a certain period of time. (5) Livestock The term livestock means cattle, sheep, swine, and goats, whether alive or dead. (6) Meat food products The term meat food products has the meaning given the term in section 2(a) of the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 ( 7 U.S.C. 182 ). (7) Poultry The term poultry has the meaning given the term in section 4 of the Poultry Products Inspection Act ( 21 U.S.C. 453 ). (8) Poultry product The term poultry product has the meaning given the term in section 4 of the Poultry Products Inspection Act ( 21 U.S.C. 453 ). (9) Secretary The term Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Administrator of the Agricultural Marketing Service. (b) Establishment The Secretary shall enter into cooperative agreements with entities (including private entities, nonprofit organizations, and small businesses) to develop, as determined by the Secretary— (1) a single digital livestock exchange platform; or (2) multiple digital livestock exchange platforms by region. (c) Status as market agency A digital livestock exchange platform shall be a market agency (as defined in section 301 of the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921 ( 7 U.S.C. 201 ), except that livestock in paragraph (1) of that section shall include poultry) for purposes of that Act. (d) Purposes and activities of platform A digital livestock exchange platform shall— (1) facilitate open access to online cash transfer and open bidding on forward contracts and procurement contracts between— (A) livestock and poultry producers; (B) livestock and poultry producers and eligible processors; (C) livestock and poultry producers or eligible processors and institutional, private sector, and government buyers; and (D) distributors of meat food products and poultry products to institutional, private sector, and government buyers; (2) facilitate ease of access to— (A) Federal procurement opportunities for eligible processors and producers of meat food products and poultry products