Strawberry Farmers Ready Their Crop
Arkansas Democrat Gazette - October 25, 2006
...annual per-capita consumption was projected to
reach a record 6. 1 pounds in 2006, according to USDA’s
Economic Research Service ...
Sweet Potatoes Gaining Ground
Arkansas Democrat Gazette - October 22, 2006
.. Prices also are projected to be strong, approaching
2003 ’s record of $ 19. 20 per hundredweight,
or 100 pounds, said Andy Jerardo, an agricultural
economist with USDA’s Economic Research Service
...
Obstacles to Eating Healthy
WBAY-TV - October 19, 2006
... But according to the USDA Economic Research
Service analysis, more than half of the 69 forms of
fruit and 85 forms of vegetables included in the analysis
were estimated to cost 25 cents or less per serving...
Americans
Spending Much More To Buy Food at Restaurants
Bloomberg
News Service - October 19, 2006
... U.S.
consumers spent $496.2 billion eating outside the
home last year, compared with $527 billion on food
prepared in their kitchens, the Department of Agriculture's
Economic Research Service said ...
Wheat Importers Take Costs on the Chin
Financial Times—October 16, 2006
… Edward Allen, an economist at the Economic
Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture,
points out that Japanese demand is extremely price inelastic,
the amount consumed responding hardly at all to an increase
in its cost ...
Coming Soon: Return of the Cheaper Tomatoes
Chicago Sun Times—October 6, 2006
... In blazing heat, "tomatoes don't set fruit
or don't set as well as they usually do," said
Gary Lucier, agricultural economist with the U.S. Department
of Agriculture's Economic Research Service. That, coupled
with disease problems in other growing areas, "affected
quality as well as quantity," Lucier said ...
