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June 18, 2013 4:00 PM
Feed Grains Database
The Feed Grains Database contains statistics on four feed grains (corn, grain sorghum, barley, and oats), foreign coarse grains (feed grains plus rye, millet, and mixed grains), hay, and related items.
June 18, 2013 4:00 PM
Sugar and Sweetener Outlook: June 2013
The Sugar and Sweetener Outlook for June 2013 reviews the sugar and sweetener outlook for the United States and Mexico, emphasizing changes made in the June 2013 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report. This edition will include a chapter on U.S. added sugars consumption, both ...
June 18, 2013 1:00 PM
Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook: June 2013
Livestock Imports Lower Into 2014.
June 18, 2013 1:00 PM
Local Meat and Poultry Processing: The Importance of Business Commitments for Long-Term Viability
Consumer demand for local local meat has risen in recent years. Farmers contend that limited processing capacity restricts supply, while processors often lack the consistent business required to make a profit.
June 18, 2013 1:00 PM
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Data System
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Data System provides time-series data on State and county-level estimates of SNAP participation and benefit levels, combined with area estimates of total population and the number of persons in poverty.
June 18, 2013 10:00 AM
Meat Price Spreads
This data set provides monthly average price values, and the differences among those values, at the farm, wholesale, and retail stages of the production and marketing chain for selected cuts of beef, pork, and broilers.
June 17, 2013 4:00 PM
U.S. Bioenergy Statistics
The U.S. Bioenergy Statistics are a source of information on biofuels intended to present a picture of the renewable energy industry and its relationship to agriculture. Where appropriate, data are presented in both a calendar year and the relevant marketing year timeframe to increase utility to fe...
June 14, 2013 4:00 PM
Feed Outlook: June 2013
Rains have delayed planting the 2013 corn crop resulting in a projected yield decline of 1.5 bushels per acre to 156.5 bushels per acre.
June 14, 2013 4:00 PM
Rice Outlook: June 2013
The U.S. 2013/14 rice crop is projected at 189.5 million cwt.
June 14, 2013 1:00 PM
Cotton and Wool Outlook: June 2013
The latest USDA projections for U.S. and world cotton supply and demand.
June 14, 2013 1:00 PM
Oil Crops Outlook: June 2013
Strong soybean meal prices buoy U.S. processors.
June 14, 2013 1:00 PM
Wheat Outlook: June 2013
The outlook for both the U.S. and global wheat markets are analyzed based on the latest projections contained in the World Agricultural Supply and Uses Estimates report.
June 12, 2013 4:00 PM
Season-Average Price Forecasts
This data product provides three Excel file spreadsheet models that use futures prices to forecast the U.S. season-average price received and the implied CCP for three major field crops (corn, soybeans, and wheat).
June 12, 2013 12:00 PM
WASDE
June 11, 2013 4:00 PM
Food and Nutrition Assistance Research Database
The RIDGE Program has funded more than 250 projects at over 100 educational and research institutions during 1998-2012. The RIDGE project summaries of research findings are available in a searchable electronic database.
June 7, 2013 4:00 PM
Aquaculture Data
Statistics on domestically grown catfish and trout and U.S. imports and exports of fish and shellfish that may be products of aquaculture, such as salmon, shrimp, and oysters. Note: Starting in May, contains no updates to catfish proc...
June 7, 2013 4:00 PM
Western Irrigated Agriculture
This data product summarizes the farm-structural characteristics for irrigated farms in the 17 Western States based on USDA's 2008 and 1998 Farm and Ranch Irrigation Surveys.
June 5, 2013 4:00 PM
U.S. Agricultural Trade Data Update
FATUS tables which are updated monthly
June 5, 2013 10:00 AM
Livestock & Meat International Trade Data
Database contains current and past data on hogs and pork, cattle and beef, veal, and poultry, including trade by country.
June 4, 2013 4:00 PM
Latest U.S. Agricultural Trade Data
This data product announces USDA's monthly release of calendar year, fiscal year, year-to-date, and monthly value of U.S. agricultural exports, imports, and trade balance.
June 3, 2013 4:00 PM
Commodity Costs and Returns
USDA has estimated annual production costs and returns and published accounts for major field crop and livestock enterprises since 1975. Cost and return estimates are reported for the United States and major production regions for corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, grain sorghum, rice, peanuts, oats, ba...
June 3, 2013 12:00 PM
Amber Waves
Amber Waves presents the broad scope of ERS research and analysis on the economics of food, farming, natural resources, and rural America. The June 2013 issue includes articles on the U.S. crop outlook, food insecurity, agricultural productivity in China, energy use on farms, and food loss.
May 31, 2013 4:00 PM
Vegetables and Pulses Yearbook
The Yearbook tables contain a time series of annual and monthly data for U.S. farm acreage, production, prices, trade, per capita use, and more.
May 30, 2013 4:00 PM
Agricultural Exchange Rate Data Set
Contains annual and monthly data for exchange rates important to U.S. agriculture. It includes both nominal and real exchange rates for 80 countries (plus the European Union) as well as real trade-weighted exchange rate indexes for many commodities and aggregations.
May 30, 2013 4:00 PM
Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade: May 2013
Record U.S. agricultural exports are forecast for fiscal 2013, up $3.7 billion from the year before to $139.5 billion. Imports are also projected to be at a record high, up $7.6 billion from fiscal 2012 to $111 billion.
May 30, 2013 11:00 AM
Food Insecurity in Households With Children: Prevalence, Severity, and Household Characteristics, 2010-11
In 2011, nearly 21 percent of households with children were food insecure. ERS describes the extent and severity of child food insecurity by household characteristics.
May 29, 2013 4:00 PM
Why Are Americans Consuming Less Fluid Milk? A Look at Generational Differences in Intake Frequency
Americans consumed progressively less fluid milk, on average, for over six decades. Since at least the 1970s, differences in intake frequency between older and younger generations have contributed to the per capita decline in intake.
May 29, 2013 4:00 PM
World Raw Sugar Prices: The Influence of Brazilian Costs of Production and World Surplus/Deficit Measures
Brazil is the world’s leading sugar producer and, over the long term, world sugar prices are determined by production costs in Center/South Brazil, as well as the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the Brazilian real .
May 28, 2013 4:00 PM
Dairy Data
These data are from several USDA agencies (see scope in Documentation). They were previously were included in the Meat Statistics page in the Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry (LDP) Outlook tables and may contain revisions not included in previous releases of the LDP tables.
May 28, 2013 4:00 PM
Livestock & Meat Domestic Data
Database contains current and historical data on pork, beef, veal, and poultry, including production, supply, utilization, and farm prices.
May 28, 2013 4:00 PM
Milk Cost of Production Estimates
Annual milk cost of production estimates are available by State and by size of operation from 2005 through 2011. Note: Monthly estimates suspended.
May 24, 2013 9:00 AM
Food Price Outlook
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for food is probably the most widely used indicator of changes in retail food prices. ERS regularly updates food price forecasts for the short-term period.
May 21, 2013 4:00 PM
Wheat Data
This data product contains statistics on wheat - including the five classes of wheat: hard red winter, hard red spring, soft red winter, white, and durum - and rye.

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