Outlook Reports

New Releases
Overview
Products
Special Reports (Single Issue)
E-mail Notification
Process

New Releases

• Peanut Outlook: Impacts of the 2008-09 Foodborne Illness Outbreak Linked to Salmonella in Peanuts
• Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook, "Red Meat Exports to Strengthen in 2010"
• Sugar and Sweeteners Outlook, "U.S. Sugar 2010"

Overview

In 2010, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for all food is projected to increase 2.5 to 3.5 percent, with both food-at-home (grocery store) and food-away-from-home (restaurant) prices also forecast to increase 2.5 to 3.5 percent. Recovering global economies will lead to increased commodity and energy costs, along with stronger domestic and global food demand to pull inflation up from the low 2009 levels. Retail food price inflation for 2010, although not projected to be as strong as that of 2008, will rebound from the 2009 level toward a moderate level, slightly above the long-term historic average.

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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)

• Peanut Outlook: Impacts of the 2008-09 Foodborne Illness Outbreak Linked to Salmonella in Peanuts
• China Is Using More Corn for Industrial Products
• The Debt Finance Landscape for U.S. Farming and Farm Businesses

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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.