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News Stories Use ERS Data and Analysis.
Gavel is Falling on the Money Crop
Baltimore Sun - February 19, 2006
... Tobacco production is down nationwide, falling
27 percent last year, according to Thomas Capehart, a
senior economist with the Economic Research Service of
the USDA. The crop is at its lowest level since 1879 ...
The Whole Truth
Wall Street Journal Online - February 16, 2006
... In the eight weeks following the release of new dietary
advice last year, the average consumer bought 13% more
pounds of whole-grain products than the same period a
year before, according to the Agriculture Department's
Economic Research Service ...
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