Overview
The United States is the sixth-leading producer of dry
edible beans, behind Brazil, India, China, Burma, and
Mexico. During 2001-03, dry bean farm cash receipts averaged
$446 million—ninth among U.S. vegetables. Averaging
6.8 pounds per person during 2001-03, annual per capita
use of dry beans was 11 percent lower than 1991-93 but
1 percent above 1981-83. North Dakota and Michigan account
for nearly half of U.S. production. ERS analysis of dry
beans covers supply, use, price, and international trade.
Features
Effects of Marketing Loans on U.S. Dry Peas and Lentils: Supply Response and World Trade describes how extending marketing loans for the 2002-07 crops of dry peas and lentils led to expanded acreage in some years. However, simulation results suggest that impacts on U.S. pea and lentil exports were minor.
Vegetables and Melons Outlook
is an electronic report, issued every other month in newsletter
format, featuring current intelligence and forecasts of
changing conditions in the U.S. vegetable and melon sectors.
Topics include production, consumption, prices, trade,
and more.
Recommended Readings
Dry Edible Beans presents
the latest market outlook for the U.S. dry bean market,
including production, trade, and prices for major classes
such as pinto and navy beans (06/08).
Dry Peas and Lentils
presents the latest market outlook for the U.S. dry pea
and lentil market, including production, trade, and prices
for major classes such as green peas and lentils (06/08).
Fruit and
Vegetable Backgrounder describes the economic characteristics
of the U.S. fruit and vegetable industry, providing supply,
demand, and policy background for an industry that accounts
for nearly a third of U.S. crop cash receipts and a fifth
of U.S. agricultural exports. A variety of challenges
face this complex and diverse industry in both domestic
and international markets, ranging from immigration reform
and its effect on labor availability to international
competitiveness (04/06).
See all recommended readings...
Recommended Data Products
Dry Beans at a Glance
provides data for 2001/02 to 2007/08 on area, production,
value, unit value, and trade for U.S. dry edible beans.
Most recent tables from Vegetable and Melons Outlook
containing acreage, production, prices, crop values, U.S.
trade, and more for dry edible beans (Excel,
PDF)
and dry peas and lentils (Excel,
PDF).
Dry
Pea and Lentil Statistics include time-series tables
describing dry pea and lentil markets, including U.S.
acreage, yield, production, price, value, trade, and per
capita use. Other tables contain data on world dry pea,
lentil, and chickpea acreage, production, and trade.
U.S. Dry Bean Statistics, 1909-2006 includes 155 time-series tables describing dry bean markets, including acreage, yield, production, price, value, trade, and per capita use. It also contains State production series, information by class of bean, and world area, production, and trade (updated 9/2007).
Vegetables
and Melons Yearbook provides over 140 tables in downloadable
spreadsheet files (.xls) detailing 25 years of annual
data. It includes 10 tables for U.S./State dry bean farm
acreage, production, prices, crop value, imports and exports
by class and country, and per capita use by class.
Questions and Answers
Why does USDA's Food Guide Pyramid put dry beans in the
meat group? Find the answer to this
and other dry bean questions.
Related Briefing Rooms
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Related Links
Other sites with economic
information about dry bean markets.
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