About ERS
ERS anticipates trends and emerging issues in agriculture, food, the environment, and rural America and conducts high-quality, objective economic research to inform and enhance public and private decision making.
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Charts of Note
Fast facts on U.S. agriculture
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Ag and Food Statistics: Charting the Essentials
The basics on food, farming, and rural America, in a set of 70 charts and maps.
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Food Access Research Atlas
Create maps using several options to describe food access.
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Food Environment Atlas
Use this tool to map community access to affordable, healthy food.
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Amber Waves
The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America.
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Data Visualizations
Explore interactive graphs, charts and maps.
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Data
Access and analyze charts, maps, downloadable data files, and queryable data applications.
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The ERS State Fact Sheets provide information on population, income, poverty, food security, education, employment, farm characteristics, farm financial indicators, top commodities, and agricultural exports. Data are available for all States, and for metro/nonmetro breakouts within States (and for Puerto Rico if applicable). Links to county-level data are provided where available.
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The Food Price Outlook provides food price data and forecasts changes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index (PPI) for food.
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Selected Weekly Vegetable Movement and Price describes the change in shipment volume, farm prices, and retail prices of select vegetables for the week noted. Volume and prices reflect weekly marketing and supply chain conditions which can be affected by various factors including pests, weather, imports, exports, retail promotions, and labor disruptions.
