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  Fruit and Tree Nuts Outlook: March 2018
  FTS-366, March 29, 2018
  At the current forecast of 6.16 million tons, the 2017/18 U.S. citrus crop is down 21 percent percent from the 2016/17 season, resulting in higher citrus prices in the domestic market.
  
  The Food Assistance Landscape: FY 2017 Annual Report
  EIB-190, March 15, 2018
  In FY 2017, expenditures on USDA’s 15 domestic food and nutrition programs totaled $98.6 billion, 4 percent less than in the previous fiscal year and almost 10 percent less than the historical high of $109.2 billion set in FY 2013.
  
  Three Decades of Consolidation in U.S. Agriculture
  EIB-189, March 14, 2018
  Consolidation has been widespread, persistent, and pronounced in crop production, and dramatic in some livestock sectors. Little consolidation has occurred in pasture/grazing land, and in the cow-calf sector.
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  Millennials Devote Larger Shares of Their Grocery Spending to Prepared Foods, Pasta, and Sugar and Sweets Than Other Generations
  
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  U.S. manufacturing employment has been declining since the 1950s. A better understanding of the factors affecting the survival of rural manufacturing plants may help develop strategies to retain these jobs.
  
  Sub-Saharan Africa Is Projected To Be the Leader in Global Rice Imports
  
  Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has undergone economic, social, and demographic transformations over the past 10 to 15 years. Among the poorest regions in the world, it faces major political and economic challenges and low food security.
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June 01, 2009 | by Elise Golan, Lisa Mancino, and Laurian Unnevehr

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