In 1997, ERS expanded Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook to include information formerly contained in Dairy Outlook. The final issue of Dairy Outlook was published December 13, 1996.This archive report contains detailed analysis and data covering the outlook for the dairy sector, including milk production by States, regions, and the Nation; dairy cow inventory; milk and dairy products prices, supplies, and utilization; and international markets and trade.

This archived report does not contain recent information or data. This report provides a historical overview of the industry, more detailed examinations of the fluid milk market and selected manufactured dairy product markets, a discussion of future prospects and trends in the industry, and some thoughts on the implications of those prospects and trends for dairy farmers and their organizations, processors, dairy product manufacturers, and retailers. The U.S. dairy industry, many segments of which supported dairy policy changes in the 1996 Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act, is much different than it was 20 or even 10 years ago. Last published September 1997.

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 adoption of technological innovations, changes in the production system, and specialization. The key features of milk production examined in this report are the quantity of milk produced and the location, number, size, and business organization of dairy farms.

This annual dataset contains statistics on production, supply, and use of milk and other manufactured dairy products, including data on commercial, manufacturer, and government stocks and disappearance of dairy products, as well as import and export data. Also includes prices received by farmers, wholesale and retail price indexes, milk production costs, and information regarding regional shares of U.S. milk production. Tables are in .xls format and downloadable either separately or collectively as a .zip file. For many tables, the most recent year-to-date information is available from Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook: Tables on the ERS website.

This dataset includes U.S. wheat acreage, production, supply, trade, use, and price data for wheat flour and rye.

The tables previously released annually as part of the Wheat Yearbook are now available in the Wheat Data product on the ERS website. Data include statistics on wheat (including the five classes of wheat: hard red winter, hard red spring, soft red winter, white, and durum) and rye. The yearbook tables are updated as new data become available.

Dataset updated May 2006.

A report containing related information is Wheat Situation and Outlook Yearbook.

This archived dataset does not contain recent data or information. Includes U.S. and world data on production, supply, trade, disappearance, and price data for tobacco and tobacco products. Includes data on U.S. tobacco acreage, yield, production, stocks, and marketing by type. Was last published January 2006.

The U.S. Carrot Statistics data product provides information on fresh and proccessed carrots for the United States and individual States for 1960-2009. Acreage, yield, production, price, and value are presented by major State. Additional statistical series includes supply and disappearance, per capita consumption (use), price indexes, shipments, arrivals, usual planting and harvesting dates; varieties planted; U.S. exports and imports by country; world area, production, imports and exports by country for carrots and turnips.

Dataset was last updated January 2011.

This data product provides detailed statistics on sweet potatoes for the United States and individual sweet potato-producing states for 1960-2010. Acreage, yield, production, and value are presented by State. Other statistical series include U.S. per capita use, price indexes, shipments, arrivals, exports and imports by county, and selected cost of production. World acreage, production, exports, and imports are also included.
Dataset updated June 2011.

The statistical information in this dataset provides information from 1965-2011 concerning the U.S. mushroom industry. The data set contains series at the U.S., State, and Region-level for mushroom area, yield, production, price, value, sales, and per capita use. Other series include U.S. trade (by product and country), various Census tables, and world production and trade by country for mushrooms and truffles.

Dataset last updated August 31, 2011.

This dataset contains annual and monthly data on U.S. national and state apple farm numbers, acreage, yield, production, prices, crop value, trade, supply, and per capita use of apples and apple products. Also included are the monthly data on apple and apple product shipments, imports and exports, and world production and acreage of apples.

Data set updated May 2010.