Recent
News Stories Use ERS Data and Analysis.
China Looks Beyond U.S. Farmers To Satiate Its Growing
Soybean Appetite
Wall Street Journal – August 20, 2006
… In the mid-1990s, China lowered its tariff on
soybeans to 3% in anticipation of signing the accession
agreement, which prevents China from raising tariffs because
of domestic pressure, says Francis Tuan, senior economist
at Economic Research Service, a unit of the U.S. Agriculture
Department ...
Soybean Rust Not Here yet: Farmers Keep Watchful Eye
on Fields
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette – August 20, 2006
… A major soybean rust outbreak here could cost
the U.S. economy between $240 million and $2 billion a
year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
Economic Research Service. The cost would vary depending
on the severity of the outbreak ...
Peaches: Up-and-Down Weather Produced Smaller, Sweeter
Fruit but Crop May Be Less Abundant
Winchester Star (VA) – August 17, 2006
… Agnes Perez, an agricultural economist with the
USDA Economic Research Service, said the 2005 Virginia
crop was the largest crop in the past five years ...
Milk Moves Out of Favor; Dairy's Fans Say 'Cheese'
Winston-Salem Journal - August 16, 2006
… This realization dawned on me while reading
a dairy report issued last month by the Economic Research
Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture …
Farmers Debate: Who Benefits From Subsidies?
Frederick News Post - August 13, 2006
… but food expenditures in less developed countries,
such as the Philippines, often account for more than half
of a household budget, according to a study by the Economic
Research Service of the USDA …
In the Heat of It: Milk Production Drops Along With
Prices
Missoulian (MT) – August 3, 2006
… According to the USDA's Economic Research
Service, the number of dairy cows and dairy farms has
fallen significantly in the past 25 years, even while
per-person consumption of dairy products has increased.
But while there may be fewer cows, average production
has increased by 60 percent since 1980 ...
Previous
ERS in the news items
|
