Outlook Reports

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

New Releases

• Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook, "Volatility in Cattle and Beef Prices Expected To Continue Well into 2010"
• The Debt Finance Landscape for U.S. Farming and Farm Businesses
• Wheat Outlook, "Projected U.S. Exports Down From October"
• Feed Outlook, "Lower Yields Reduce Corn Crop, Still Second Largest Ever"

Overview

In 2009, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for all food is projected to increase 2.0 to 3.0 percent, compared with a 5.5-percent increase the year before. Lower commodity and energy costs will combine with weaker domestic and global economies to pull inflation down from 2008 levels. Food-at-home prices are forecast to increase 1.0 to 2.0 percent in 2009, while food-away-from-home prices are forecast to increase 3.5 to 4.5 percent. The CPI for all food decreased 0.1 percent from August to September, was unchanged from July to August, and is now 0.2 percent below the September 2008 level. Declines in meat, dairy, and produce prices have pushed the year-over-year change in the food CPI into negative territory for the first time in 42 years.

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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)

• The Debt Finance Landscape for U.S. Farming and Farm Businesses
• What the 2008/2009 World Economic Crisis Means for Global Agricultural Trade
• Younger Consumers Exhibit Less Demand for Fresh Vegetables

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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.