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Previous Newsroom Items: October 2011

In the News
   
kids eating lunch USDA Awards $2.2 Million for Research on Food and Nutrition Assistance Programs (Oct. 21, 2011)
Under Secretary Dr. Catherine Woteki has announced research grants and cooperative agreement awards made by ERS to examine and enhance USDA’s food and nutrition assistance programs.
   
 New From ERS
   
Distillers’ Grains for Livestock Feed  (Oct. 13, 2011)
Distillers’ dried grains with solubles (DDGS) – among the co-products of corn-based dry-mill ethanol production – have long been substituted for corn and soybean meal in livestock feed. ERS developed a method to estimate the substitution potential.
   
Barn and farmhouse Farm Act: The Limited Base Acre Provision (Oct. 12, 2011)
ERS examines the effect of the 2008 Farm Act provision eliminating direct and countercyclical payments and average crop revenue election payments to farms with 10 or fewer base acres. Get Report Summary
   
 Inspector at poultry plant Food Safety Audits (Oct. 3, 2011)
ERS documents the extent of food safety audits in meat and poultry processing plants and examines the association between the use of audits and the plants’ size, business structure, and application of food safety technology. Get Report Summary
   
Also New

Fruit and Tree Nuts Yearbook Data tables
October 28, 2011

State Fact Sheets (update)
October 28, 2011

Vegetables and Melons Outlook
October 27, 2011

Monthly Milk Cost of Production
October 26, 2011

Analysis and Forecast of the CPI for Food
October 25, 2011

Food CPI Forecast 2011-2012
(update)
October 25, 2011

Wheat Data
October 21, 2011

Feed Grains Database
October 21, 2011

Meat Price Spreads
October 19, 2011

Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook
October 18, 2011

Sugar and Sweeteners Outlook
October 17, 2011

Aquaculture Data
October 17, 2011

Agricultural Outlook Statistical Indicators
October 14, 2011

U.S. Agricultural Trade Data Update
October 14, 2011

Livestock and Meat Trade Data
October 14, 2011

Wheat Outlook
October 14, 2011

Feed Outlook
October 14, 2011

Cotton and Wool Outlook
October 13, 2011

Rice Outlook
October 13, 2011

Oil Crops Outlook
October 13, 2011

Latest U.S. Agricultural Trade Data (summary)
October 13, 2011

Season-Average Price Forecasts
October 12, 2011

World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates
October 12, 2011

Commodity Costs and Returns Data
October 3, 2011

 

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Updated date: December 9, 2011