Recent news stories use ERS data and analysis.
New dietary guidelines
advocate at least three servings of milk a day
Portsmouth Herald News,
NH—August
31, 2005
… Declining milk consumption is attributed
to competition from soft drinks and bottled water,
fewer children in the population and an influx
of ethnic populations that do not typically include
milk in their diet, according to the USDA’s
Economic Research Service ...
Workers disappearing from hay fields
Associated
Press, Dailies—August
29-31, 2005
… Allen Baker, an economist with the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, said that in the past
30 years, the hay business has become almost completely
mechanized …
Toss some turkey on the grill
Wheeling News-Register—August
30, 2005
… research from the U.S. Department of
Agriculture Economic Research Service shows that
Americans are increasing their consumption of
turkey more rapidly than any other meat ...
Lower poultry prices hit farmers
News Journal (DE)—August 25,
2005
... "We are expecting very strong exports this
year than last year and, of course, any amount we
export takes away from domestic consumption,"
said David Harvey, agricultural economist at the
Economic Research Service at the U.S. Department
of Agriculture ...
If you are what you eat, Midwesterners are sweet
Chicago Sun-Times—August 23,
2005
Generated by recently released ERS report on sugar
consumption.
State's apple farmers struggle as prices fall
Seattle Post Intelligencer—
August 20, 2005
… Americans ate 16.7 pounds of fresh apples
per capita in 2003, 22 percent less than the record
21.4 pounds in 1989, according to the Economic Research
Service of the Agriculture Department …
In parched Midwest, corn shrivels under the
sun
Christian Science Monitor, USA Today—August
16, 2005
… "Prices will be stronger," says
Allen Baker, a corn analyst with the USDA's Economic
Research Service, which released its monthly feed
outlook Tuesday...
Calcium correctness
Kansas
City Star—August 16, 2005
… Declining milk consumption is attributed
to competition from soft drinks and bottled water,
fewer children in the population and an influx
of ethnic populations that do not typically include
milk in their diet, according to the USDA’s
Economic Research Service ...
Farm spending up 5 percent in 2004
Farm and Dairy (Ohio)—August
11, 2005
… These results are based on survey indications
from the Agricultural Resource Management Survey,
a joint effort shared by USDA's NASS and Economic
Research Service.
Behind costs of organic products
York (PA) Dispatch Associated Press—
August 9, 2005
… Instead of planting a cash crop on every
acre every year, they rotate fields and plant 'cover
crops' that are plowed to improve the soil's nutrients
for the long term. 'When you're rotating crops,
you're not necessarily growing all your highest
value crops all the time, which is different than
a conventional system,' said Catherine Greene, an
agricultural economist at the USDA [ERS] …
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