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Rural America at a Glance: 2024 Edition

The rural population is aging, creating challenges in the local labor supply and increasing demands for goods and services

USDA Agricultural Projections to 2034

These projections are a 10-year outlook for domestic agriculture

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U.S. Bioenergy Statistics

This biofuels information source is intended to present the renewable energy industry’s relationship to agriculture

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Cuba’s Deteriorating Food Security and Its Implications for U.S. Agricultural Exports

This report discusses Cuba’s growing food insecurity stemming from reduced tourism, remittances, trade, and food production

his depicts the different facets of production and trade reaching the consumer. Starting from the left, there is a shipping port with a ship that is being loaded with goods. The boat them travels to the right and shows an 18-wheel truck in front of a warehouse and consumers waving in a city.

Methodology of USDA, Economic Research Service Agricultural Trade Multipliers

A streamlined and more automated program that retains the model's existing structure

Two lunch monitors serving lunches to children in school in a cafeteria line.

The National School Lunch Program: Background, Trends, and Issues, 2024 Edition

Documents changes in the National School Lunch Program prompted by legislation, economic conditions, and the Coronavirus pandemic

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

Who Shops for Groceries Online?

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 September 5, 2024 to add average (2021–23) household food insecurity and very low food security estimates, and 2023 farm financial indicators and top commodities.