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ERS Rural America
Description: Rural America highlights the practical application of research in rural banking, the changing demographics of the American population, implication for child-rearing and schooling, housing, the nonmetro labor force, poverty, and the effect of farm policies on rural areas. Category: Agriculture Economics and Management:Production Practices Keyword: rural communities, rural development, and rural economics Latest Release: Jun 11, 2002 Jun 11, 2002: Rural America Release datetime: Jun 11, 2002 -
Description: The dairy industry underwent dramatic restructuring in the last 50 or so years. The 1997 U.S. Department of Agriculture report by Manchester and Blayney, The Structure of Dairy Markets: Past, Present, Future, described selected dairy product markets, firms in the markets, and changes in the markets and firms for the 1975-99 period. This report provides a similar examination of milk production. Structural changes in milk production are a result of long-term evolutionary processes such as adopt... Category: Animals and Animal Products:Dairy Keyword: dairies, dairy farming, and milk Latest Release: Jun 1, 2002 Jun 1, 2002: Changing Landscape of U.S. Milk Production Release datetime: Jun 1, 2002 -
Description: Agricultural Outlook (AO) ceased publication in December 2002. A new magazine, AmberWaves, replaced Agricultural Outlook, FoodReview, and Rural America in February 2003. This archive contains AO publications covering commodity markets and trade, farm policy, and other food- and agriculture-related topics. Each release includes data on individual commodities, farm income, the general economy, agricultural trade, and related issues. Commodity and trade outlook data and information conti... Category: Crops and Crop Products:Tobacco, Animals and Animal Products:Dairy, Crops and Crop Products:Sugar Crops, Crops and Crop Products:Grains and Oilseeds, Animals and Animal Products:Livestock, Crops and Crop Products:Oil Crops, Crops and Crop Products:Cotton and Cottonseed, Crops and Crop Products:Vegetables and Pulses, and Animals and Animal Products:Poultry Keyword: agricultural policy, commodity prices, and farm budgets Latest Release: Jan 1, 2002 Jan 1, 2002: Agricultural Outlook Release datetime: Jan 1, 2002Temporal coverage: 2002-02-20 - 2002-11-21 -
Description: This archived report does not contain recent information or data and was last published in January 2001. In 2000, trade practices between fresh produce shippers and food retailers gained national attention. Trade practices include fees such as volume discounts and slotting fees, as well as services like automatic inventory replenishment, special packaging, and requirements for third-party food safety certification. Trade practices also refer to the overall structure of a transaction-for examp... Category: Crops and Crop Products:Vegetables and Pulses Keyword: fresh produce, fruits, trade, and vegetables Latest Release: Jan 1, 2001 Jan 1, 2001: U.S. Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Marketing: Emerging Trade Practices, Trends, and Issues Release datetime: Jan 1, 2001 -
Description: In 2002, this report was replaced by Floriculture and Nursery Crops Yearbook. This archive report contains statistics on floriculture and nursery crop sales, number of growers, imports, exports, and consumption. For floriculture crops, tables include quantity sold, value of sales, wholesale prices, consumption per U.S. household, and import share of consumption. Category: Crops and Crop Products:Fruits Keyword: bulbs, floriculture, flowers, horticulture, and seeds Latest Release: Oct 1, 1999 Oct 1, 1999: Floriculture and Environmental Horticulture Yearbook: Report Release datetime: Oct 1, 1999 -
Description: These archived data include statistics on numbers of growers, grower cash receipts, area under glass or other protection, acreage in the open, quantities sold and dollar value of sales, sales through wholesale and retail outlets, prices, imports, exports, wholesale supplies and retail expenditures for cut flowers, cut greens, potted flowering plants, potted foliage plants, bedding and garden plants, nursery crops, bulbs, turf grass (sod), trade, and related horticultural specialty crops from ... Category: Agriculture Economics and Management:Retail and Market Prices Keyword: cut flowers, floriculture, floriculture crops, greenhouse production, nursery crops, and trade Latest Release: Oct 1, 1999 Oct 1, 1999: Floriculture and Environmental Horticulture Yearbook Spreadsheet Files This report provides statistics for numbers of growers, grower cash receipts, area under glass or other protection, acreage in the open, quantities sold and dollar value of sales, sales through wholesale and retail outlets, prices, imports, exports, wholesale supplies and retail expenditures for cut flowers, cut greens, potted flowering plants, potted foliage plants, bedding and garden plants, nursery crops, bulbs, turfgrass (sod), and related horticultural specialty crops from 1991 to 1998.Release datetime: Oct 1, 1999Temporal coverage: 1991-01-01 - 1998-12-31 -
Description: This archived report does not contain recent information or data and was last published April 1999. Included in this report are annual models for U.S. farm prices for corn and wheat, based on market factors as well as government agricultural commodity programs. The pricing relationships utilize a stocks-to-use modeling framework to capture the effects of market supply and demand factors on price determination. This formulation is augmented by factors that represent the changing role of agricu... Category: Crops and Crop Products:Grains and Oilseeds Keyword: agricultural policy, corn, market analysis, prices, and wheat Latest Release: Jul 1, 1999 Jul 1, 1999: Price Determination for Corn and Wheat: The Role of Market Factors and Government Programs Release datetime: Jul 1, 1999 -
Description: This archived report does not contain recent information or data. This report examines the cattle cycle of the 1990s to determine if there are differences from previous cattle cycles and, if so, how and why differences occurred. In early 1996, the peak in the current cycle of cattle inventories coincided with a long list of negative factors: negative returns at the farm and feedlot, record-high feed grain prices, a severe drought in 1995-96, widening farm-retail price spreads; Choice beef dol... Category: Animals and Animal Products:Livestock Keyword: beef, cattle, and cow-calf operations Latest Release: Apr 1, 1999 Apr 1, 1999: U.S. Beef Industry: Cattle Cycles, Price Spreads, and Packer Concentration Release datetime: Apr 1, 1999 -
ERS Potato Facts
Description: Potato Facts was discontinued in 1997. This archive report reviews potato statistics, and covers production, stocks, prices, trade, and outlook. Analysis and data from ERS on potato statistics is now published in the Vegetables and Melons Outlook. Category: Crops and Crop Products:Vegetables and Pulses Keyword: French fries, potato chips, potatoes, and yields Latest Release: Dec 2, 1997 Dec 2, 1997: Potato Facts Release datetime: Dec 2, 1997 -
Description: This publication was last published in 1997 and examined how agricultural materials were used by industry sectors. Seven categories of agricultural materials are covered, including: starches and carbohydrates, fats and oils, natural fibers, animal products, forest products, natural plant products, natural rubber, and resins. Category: Agriculture Economics and Management:Production Practices and Agriculture Economics and Management:Farm Input and Expenditures Keyword: agricultural economics, agricultural products, issues and policy, marketing, and production Latest Release: Dec 1, 1997 Dec 1, 1997: Industrial Uses of Agricultural Materials Release datetime: Dec 1, 1997