Outlook Reports

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

New Releases

• Vegetables and Melons Outlook, "Direct-to-Consumer Sales of Vegetables Rising"
• Trends In U.S. Cotton Basis Since 2001
• Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook, "Higher Expected Feed Costs Dampen 2010 Production Estimates"

Overview

Between April and May, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for all food declined for the fourth consecutive month—the first time since 1958 that the CPI has declined for four consecutive months. Food prices decreased 0.2 percent in May but are still up 2.7 percent from a year earlier. Food-at-home decreased 0.3 percent but remains 1.5 percent above a year ago, while the food-away-from-home index increased 0.1 percent and now stands 4.2 percent above that of last May. Thanks to lower feed and energy costs, prices for beef, dairy, poultry, and eggs declined between April and May. Beef prices dropped for the sixth time in the past 7 months. Retail egg prices fell 10.4 percent in May and are now nearly 18 percent below a year earlier. Despite the recent moderation, the CPI for all food is still projected to increase 3 to 4 percent in 2009.

Products

• Rice Yearbook
• 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)

• Trends In U.S. Cotton Basis Since 2001
• Specialized U.S. Fruit and Tree Nut Farm Production Expenses
• Russia's Growing Agricultural Imports Causes and Outlook
• Factors Behind the Rise in Global Rice Prices in 2008

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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.

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.

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.