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Working Lands Conservation Contract Modifications: Patterns in Dropped Practices

A look at how often--and why--producers drop practices from EQIP conservation contracts

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Capturing the Complete U.S. Food Environment With Commercial Data

Data sources used in research vary in how they capture the food retail and food service establishments that serve Americans

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Linking USDA Nutrition Databases to IRI Household-Based and Store-Based Scanner Data

ERS merges household and retail scanner data with USDA data to measure the healthfulness of Americans' retail food purchases

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USDA Agricultural Projections to 2028

USDA's 10-year projections for the food and agriculture sector cover major agricultural commodities, agricultural trade, and aggregate indicators of the U.S. farm sector, such as farm income

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Farm sector income and farm household income forecast for 2019: March update

2019 net farm income forecast at $69.4 billion, up 10 percent from 2018; median farm household income forecast at $78,987

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Unpacking the Growth in Per Capita Availability of Fresh Market Tomatoes

Per capita U.S. availability of fresh tomatoes averaged 20.7 pounds a year in 2010-17, up from 12 pounds in the early 1980s, reflecting growing imports, changing demographics and tastes, and emerging protected-culture technologies.

Expert Panel on Technical Questions and Data Gaps for the ERS Loss-Adjusted Food Availability (LAFA) Data Series

Working Lands Conservation Contract Modifications: Patterns in Dropped Practices

USDA Agricultural Projections to 2028

Linking USDA Nutrition Databases to IRI Household-Based and Store-Based Scanner Data

Unpacking the Growth in Per Capita Availability of Fresh Market Tomatoes

The Economic Impacts of Breastfeeding: A Focus on USDA’s Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)

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State Fact Sheets

Information on population, income, poverty, food security, education, employment, farm indicators, and more.

Food Price Outlook

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for food is probably the most widely used indicator of changes in retail food prices. ERS regularly updates food price forecasts for the short-term period.

Meat Price Spreads

This page contains data on monthly average price values at the farm, wholesale, and retail stages for selected cuts of beef, pork, and broilers.

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Charts of Note

Distributed Monday-Friday to highlight charts of interest from our current and past research.

Ag and Food Statistics: Charting the Essentials

The basics on food, farming, and rural America, in a set of 70 charts and maps.

Data Visualizations

Explore interactive graphs, charts and maps.

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Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America

View the diversity of challenges and opportunities across America's counties.

The Food Access Research Atlas

Create maps showing food access indicators by census tract using different measures and indicators of supermarket accessibility.

The Food Environment Atlas: An Update

View factors that interact to influence food choice and diet quality across U.S. States and counties.

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Grocery Store Prices Rose for the First Time in 3 Years in 2018

Higher Vehicle Exclusions and Asset Limits in SNAP May Encourage Asset Accumulation Among Low-Income Households

No-till and Strip-till Are Widely Adopted but Often Used in Rotation With Other Tillage Practices

Drought-Tolerant Corn in the United States: Research, Commercialization, and Related Crop Production Practices

Release of China’s Rice Stocks Could Impact Global Feed Markets

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Food Environment Atlas
Use this tool to map community access to affordable, healthy food.

USDA Ag Census Web Maps
View county-level Ag Census maps via new interactive tool.

Visualizing ERS Data
Explore one or more of ERS’ new interactive data visualizations.

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2018 Farm Bill

Rural America at a Glance, 2018 Edition

Farm Sector Income & Finances

Organic Agriculture

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Feel Like There's a Food Recall Every Day? That Shouldn't Stop You From Eating

State of the Industry: Dairy

Net Farm Income Expected to Drop 12% This Year

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