Recent
News Stories Use ERS Data and Analysis.
Eat to Live – A Healthy Way to Save
United Press International – January 30, 2006
… And according to the Economic Research Service
of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Consumer Price
Index for all food increased at an annual rate of 2.4
percent in 2005 and is forecast to increase 2.0 percent
to 3.0 percent in 2006 …
High Price of Tomatoe
WITA-TV, Atlanta – January 28, 2006
USDA Economist Gary Lusure says tomatoes being
shipped are about half of what they were a year
ago. He says there's definitely a shortage coming
out of Florida after Hurricane Wilma devastated
the vegetable industry.
UW Nutrition Program Battles Hunger in Wyoming
Homes
Casper Star Tribune, WY – January 8,
2006
… About 115,000 of the state’s
residents are youths, 17 and under. Of those,
about 13 percent live in poverty, or about
15,000 according to information from the Economic
Research of the USDA ...
Chicken Industry to Test for Bird Flu
Associated Press, major dailies – January 6,
2006
… Chicken prices at the grocery store have dropped
in recent months, mostly because production is up and
exports are down, said David Harvey, a poultry analyst
for the department's Economic Research Service …
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