Recent News Stories Use ERS
Data and Analysis
USDA to Survey Households on Food Choices, Expenditures
Feedstuffs – November 30, 2009
The five-year "National Household Food Purchase & Acquisition Study" (NHFPAS) will collect "detailed and unique data" not previously available for its economic researchers and will be used by USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) to better determine how USDA food assistance programs and demographic and economic factors affect decisions pertaining to household food purchases and health outcomes….
Removal of Government Controls Impact Peanut and Tobacco Markets
Daily Dunklin Democrat – November 29, 2009
An article in the December 2009 Amber Waves e-magazine produced by the USDA Economic Research Service got my attention. This article is entitled, “Removal of Government Controls Opens Peanut and Tobacco Sectors to Market Forces,”….
Claims of Thanksgiving Excess Fueled by Feast of Fuzzy Data
Wall Street Journal – November 25, 2009
David Harvey, a poultry and fish-farming analyst with the USDA's Economic Research Service, says it would be difficult to come up with a precise Thanksgiving turkey tally. "I'd prefer to say we eat a lot of turkey in the fourth quarter."
U.S. Farm Profit To Decline 34% on Lower Crop Prices
Bloomberg – November 24, 2009
Net farm income will total $57.036 billion, more than the $54 billion forecast in August, the U.S. Department of Agriculture [ERS] said today in a report. Profit will be the lowest in seven years and down from last year’s estimated $87.074 billion, the USDA said.
America’s Economic Pain Brings Hunger Pangs
Washington Post – November 17, 2009
At a time when rising poverty, widespread unemployment and other effects of the recession have been well documented, the report released Monday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture [ERS] provides the government's first detailed portrait of the toll that the faltering economy has taken on Americans' access to food….
Growth Slows in Ontario’s Organic Dairy Industry
Better Farming (Ontario) – November 11, 2009
The conclusion that U.S. [organic dairy] farmers will move to having larger operations was in a study by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service released this month….
Public, Private Sectors to Play Significant Role in Tackling Food Price Hikes
China View – November 11, 2009
"Analyses have shown that trade restrictions by major exporters and speculative buying by a few importers were responsible for driving up world rice prices in 2007-08," said William Coyle, senior economist at U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service [at Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting].
Stable Farm Labor Seems Elusive in Global Economy
Oregonian – November 7, 2009
… Even farmers and their families have been driven from farm work by expanding nonfarm economic opportunities, said William Kandel, a sociologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service. "We have a market where you can find alternatives," Kandel said….
Marketers Serve Super-Cheap Thanksgiving Fare
Marketing Daily – November 6, 2009
Overall, 2008 was the largest inflation year for food since 1990," says Ephraim Leibtag, an economist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service. "From September 2007 to September, 2008, grocery store prices rose 7.6%. Right now, grocery store prices are 2.5% lower than they were at this time a year ago."
Health Insurance Major Concern for Farmers
US AgNet – November 4, 2009
…a 2009 study from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service, "Health Care Access of Farm and Rural Populations," supports the survey findings…. http://www.usagnet.com/state_headlines/state_story.php?ID=980&tble=OH2009
Rice Evolves With Love of Ethnic Foods
Chicago Tribune, Post and Courier (SC) - November 4, 2009
More than 80 percent of the rice consumed in the U.S. is produced in the U.S.," USDA economist Nathan Childs said. Most imports come from Thailand (jasmine) followed by India and Pakistan (basmati), he said. (November 4)
Economic Forces Pushing Organic Dairies To Be More Like Conventional Dairies, New USDA Study Finds
AgWeb – November 4, 2009
In “Characteristics, Costs and Issues for Organic Dairy Farming,” (http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/err82/) released today, authors William D. McBride and Catherine Greene say the number of organic dairies that use more conventional milk production technologies have increased in number….
Tips for Eating Well in a Tough Economy
Times Union (NY) Online – November 3, 2009
Eat in more: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service found that spending on food away from home accounted for nearly half of every American food dollar in 2008.
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