Outlook Reports

New Releases
Market Analysis for the 21st Century
Overview
Products
Special Reports (Single Issue)
E-mail Notification
Process

New Releases

• International Wheat Outlook for 2008/09
• Global Agricultural Supply and Demand: Factors Contributing to the Recent Increase in Food Commodity Prices
• Feed Yearbook Summary, "Record Demand Drives Feed Grain Prices Higher in 2007/08"

Market Analysis for the 21st Century

Proposed fiscal year 2008 funding would provide ERS with the resources needed to Strengthen and Extend its Market Analysis and Outlook Program and thereby provide the world-class analysis necessary for 21st century agricultural markets.

Overview

Agricultural exports continued their record-breaking pace in February. Exceeding $10 billion in any month for the first time ever, exports were up 9 percent over January, and October-February exports were 42 percent above the same period in fiscal 2007. The $10.1 billion for February includes similar increases over the previous month for both bulk and high-value products. Year-to-date increases over fiscal 2007 were much higher for bulk products (up 69 percent) than for high-value products (up 25 percent). The largest increases registered were for wheat (up 147 percent), dairy products (up 110 percent), soybeans (up 64 percent), vegetable oils (up 58 percent), corn (up 50 percent), and rice (up 30 percent). (April 30, 2008)

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Products

• Aquaculture (1995-2006)
• Cotton and Wool
• Feed
• Floriculture and Nursery Crops (2002-07)
• Fruit and Tree Nuts
• Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry
• Oil Crops
• Rice
• Sugar and Sweeteners
• Tobacco (1995-2007)
• Vegetables and Melons
• Wheat

• Agricultural Baseline Projections
• Consumer Price Index for Food
• Farm Income Forecasts
• Food Consumption
• Food Expenditures
• Food Price Spreads
• Income and Finance
• Industrial Uses (1993-97)
• Trade

Special Reports (Single Issue)

• Global Agricultural Supply and Demand: Factors Contributing to the Recent Increase in Food Commodity Prices
• U.S. Agricultural Trade Boosts Overall Economy
• The Japanese Market for Oranges

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E-mail Notification

Readers of ERS outlook reports have two ways they can receive an e-mail notice about release of reports and associated data.

• Receive timely notification (soon after the report is posted on the web) via USDA’s Economics, Statistics and Market Information System (which is housed at Cornell University’s Mann Library). Go to the system's E-mail Delivery of Reports page and follow the instructions to receive e-mail notices about ERS, Agricultural Marketing Service, National Agricultural Statistics Service, and World Agricultural Outlook Board products.

• Receive weekly notification (on Friday afternoon) via the ERS website. Go to ERS's E-mail Updates page and follow the instructions to receive notices about ERS outlook reports, Amber Waves magazine, and other reports and data products on specific topics. ERS also offers RSS (really simple syndication) feeds for all ERS products.

Process

ERS outlook is a component of a larger USDA Process of developing and disseminating forecasts. Learn more about the process, players, and other outputs.