Webinar: A Look at the Economic Research Service’s Commodity Costs and Returns Data - Tuesday, May 11 @ 3:00 p.m. ET

ERS Economist Samantha Padilla provides an overview of the Commodity Costs and Returns data product

Image of various farm commodities and returns, including farm vegetation and farm animals

Commodity Costs and Returns

Cost and return estimates for 12 major U.S. crop, livestock, and dairy commodities from 1975 to 2020

Economic Crises and U.S. Agricultural Exports

A study of past economic crises and a simulation of possible future crises show effects on U.S. agricultural exports

Vegetable and Pulses Outlook: April 2021

Despite the pandemic’s negative impact, domestic utilized production of vegetable and pulse crops was largely unchanged in 2020

Two Scenarios for Increasing Market Access in Agricultural Trade

ERS compares the Effects of Tariff Removal and the Trade Facilitation Agreement

ERS Coronavirus (COVID-19) Resources

Economic implications for agriculture, food, and rural America

Economic Crises and U.S. Agricultural Exports

Reforming Market Access in Agricultural Trade: Tariff Removal and the Trade Facilitation Agreement

USDA ERS Meat Price Spread Data Product Review

The Opioid Epidemic: A Geography in Two Phases

COVID-19 Working Paper: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer Redemptions during the Coronavirus Pandemic

Vegetables and Pulses Yearbook Tables

Yearbook tables contain a time series of annual per capita supply and use data for fresh and processed vegetables and for dry pulse crops. Included are U.S. production, exports, imports, per capita utilization, and prices.

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.

State Fact Sheets

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

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 around 70 charts and maps.

Data Visualizations

Explore interactive graphs, charts and maps.

Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America

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

The Food Access Research Atlas

Users can create maps showing food access indicators by census tract using different measures and indicators of supermarket accessibility, such as income, distance, and vehicle availability.