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The High Cost of Farming: North Carolina Farmers Are Getting Squeezed by High Fuel Prices
Winston-Salem Journal – August 30, 2008
… The price that livestock and poultry farmers receive has been going up, but the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Agriculture Department reported that livestock farmers are paying about 40 percent more in production costs than they are receiving for their goods….
California Farm Revenues Reach Record High in 2007
Imperial Valley News – August 28, 2008
… California agriculture saw a 15 percent gain in the sales value of its products in 2007, according to a report issued today by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service and Economic Research Service…
Autumn’s Bounty: Who Says Summer’s the Only Time To Harvest Fresh Veggies?
Hagerstown Morning Herald – August 25, 2008
… The prices for fresh vegetables rose 8.4 percent from July 2007 to July 2008, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service….
OFW Remittances [to Philippines] To Build Buffer Vs. Food Insecurity
ABS-CNN News Online - August 13, 2008
"Food security in the Philippines is projected to remain stable,” the US Congressional Research Service predicted in its latest report on Food Security in Developing Countries (2007-2017). The report relied on data provided by the US Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service (ERS), and covered 70 developing countries around the world....
Food Prices Eating Holes in Wallets, Profits
Jackson (MI) Citizen Patriot – August 10, 2008
Ephraim Leibtag, an economist with the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture who tracks retail food markets and prices, said the rising costs are most noticeable in soybeans, corn and wheat…. Leibtag predicted food prices will rise about 4 percent to 5 percent in 2009…..
Florida Farmers Face Costliest Season as Fertilizer Prices Soar
Palm Beach Post – August 7, 2008
… Food prices already are forecast to increase by 4.5 percent to 5.5 percent this year as retailers continue to pass on higher commodity and energy prices, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service….
Niche Farming Offers Way Back to the Land
New York Times – August 6, 2008
… In one measure of the growth in smaller farms …the number of organic farms in the United States more than doubled from 1992 to 2005, to 8,500 from 3,600, and the land under their cultivation more than quadrupled, to 4.1 million acres from 935,000 acres, according to the Agriculture Department’s Economic Research Service….
Schools Struggle With Food Costs
Battle Creek Enquirer – August 3, 2008
… With no slowdown in sight, necessary food items — milk, rice, pasta, cheese and bread — experienced double-digit percentage increases in price in 2007, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service….
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