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Soybeans Are Big Business in Iowa
Fort Dodge (IA) Messenger – September 27, 2008
According to the United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, soybean-planted acreage was about 75 million acres this year….
Biotech Corn, Soybeans Encroaching on Wheat Acres
Dailies, Weather Channel - September 19-23, 2008
… The Agriculture Department's Economic Research Service calculated the average cost to produce one metric ton of wheat was $6.93 per bushel in 2007 and $7.31 per bushel in 2008….
Cooking Newbies Turn to Home Dining To Cut Costs
Forbes, CNN, Dailies - September 17, 2008
… And it looks like prices will keep rising, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service. In February, the service forecast food prices will increase between 3 to 4 percent this year….
Instead of Eating To Diet, They’re Eating To Enjoy
New York Times – September 16, 2008
The Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture found that people of normal weight spend more time on meal-related tasks than people who are overweight or underweight.
Demographer Looked Past the Numbers To Discover the Heart of the Heartland
Washington Post – September 13, 2008
To the general public, Mr. Beale might have been an anonymous bureaucrat in…the Agriculture Department's Economic Research Service — but in the world of demographics and rural sociology, he was nothing less than a legend.
Tracking the Ebb and Flow of Rural America, One Number at a Time
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel – September 13, 2008
… Beale, who died earlier this month at age 85, was a rural demographer for the U.S. Department of Agriculture…. In the 1950s he joined the Agriculture Department and landed in the Economic Research Service, a branch that analyzes economic and demographic information.
Eye on Ag – Food Prices
KXMB-TV, ND – September 10, 2008
The US department of Agriculture's economic research service says food price went up more than four percent year last year and are expect to increase another five to six percent this year.
Grocery Stores Gear Up for Food Fight
Worcester Business Journal, MA – September 1, 2008
… according to a report by Steven Martinez and Phil Kaufman, economists with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service, grocery store competitors include fast food restaurants like McDonald’s and chain restaurants like Chili’s, which offer easy-to-use take-out service.
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