Rural America at a Glance: 2024 Edition
Cuba’s Deteriorating Food Security and Its Implications for U.S. Agricultural Exports
Methodology of the USDA, Economic Research Service’s Agricultural Trade Multipliers
The National School Lunch Program: Background, Trends, and Issues, 2024 Edition
Vegetables and Pulses Yearbook Tables
Yearbook tables contain a time series of annual per capita supply and use data for fresh and processed vegetables and for dry pulse crops. Included are U.S. production, exports, imports, per capita utilization, and prices.
Food Price Outlook
The Food Price Outlook provides food price data and forecasts changes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index (PPI) for food.
State Fact Sheets
Information on population, income, poverty, food security, education, employment, farm indicators, top commodities, and more. The State Fact Sheets were updated December 3, 2024 to revise farm financial indicators and top commodities estimates for 2022 and 2023.
Charts of Note
Distributed Monday–Friday to highlight charts of interest from our current and past research.
Ag and Food Statistics: Charting the Essentials
The basics on food, farming, and rural America, in a collection of 70 charts and maps.
Data Visualizations
Explore interactive graphs, charts and maps.
Atlas of Rural and Small-Town America
View the diversity of challenges and opportunities across counties in the United States.
The Food Access Research Atlas
Users can create maps showing food access indicators by census tract using different measures and indicators of supermarket accessibility, such as income, distance, and vehicle availability.
The Food Environment Atlas: An Update
View factors that interact to influence food choice and diet quality across U.S. States and counties.
- Online Grocery Shopping Participation Varied by Sociodemographic Group in 2022 and 2023
- ERS’s Updated SNAP Policy Database Facilitates Research on Program Participation and Outcomes
- Older Farm Households More Likely To Have Retirement Accounts, but Level of Retirement Savings Lower Than Average U.S. Household
- Growth in Mexico’s Horticultural Exports to the United States Continued Even as New U.S. Food Safety Laws Took Effect
- USDA Survey Provides Insights Into Farms Operated by Limited Resource Farmers and Ranchers
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Use this tool to map community access to affordable, healthy food.
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Create maps using several options to describe food access.
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Explore one or more of ERS’ new interactive data visualizations.
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Review economic implications for agriculture, food, and rural America.