Outlook Reports

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

New Releases

• Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook, "Sheep Inventories Continue Downward Trend"
• Rice Outlook, "2008/09 Season-Average Farm Price Lowered to $15.00-$16.00 per cwt"
• Oil Crops Outlook, "Combination of Market Forces Eases U.S. Soybean Prices"

Market Analysis for the 21st Century

New fiscal year 2008 funding provides 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 trade. Agricultural exports fell by 2 percent in May to $9.5 billion. Bulk product exports declined by 8 percent to $3.8 billion in May, while high-value products rose by 3 percent to $5.7 billion. Sharply curtailed shipments of soybeans (down 28 percent) and vegetable oils (down 34 percent) offset increases in fresh fruits (up 32 percent on higher values) and vegetables (up 20 percent on higher volumes). Despite declines in recent months, year-to-date exports, at $78 billion, are up 45 percent over the first 8 months of fiscal 2007, with bulk commodities still capturing most of the year-to-date growth.

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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.