Overview

ERS, working closely with the World Agricultural Outlook Board, the Foreign Agricultural Service, and other USDA agencies, conducts market analysis and provides short- and long-term projections of U.S. and world agricultural production, consumption, and trade. The market and outlook program has enhanced the quality, transparency, and accessibility of data and analytical information.

ERS economists:

Create and maintain databases and release market outlook reports on farm conditions and specific commodities.
Combine data from the ERS market outlook program with data collected by different Federal and international statistical agencies to facilitate analyses of economic performance over time, and across domestic and foreign markets.
Integrate commodity outlook and forecasting and the Agency's research programs.
Maintain modeling systems that provide the foundation for long-term forecasts.

Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook: June 2024 Feed Outlook: June 2024 Wheat Outlook: June 2024 Oil Crops Outlook: June 2024 Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade: May 2024

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USDA’s Corn Output Projections Inform Futures Price Movements U.S. Corn Exports to Mexico Have Increased With the Transition to Free Trade Under the North American Free Trade Agreement U.S. Farmers Planting Less Wheat, But Sowings of Winter Varieties Stay Stable United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) Approaches the Starting Block, Offers Growth Opportunities for Agriculture African Swine Fever Shrinks Pork Production in China, Swells Demand for Imported Pork

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Commodity Costs and Returns Milk Cost of Production Estimates Agricultural Baseline Database Agricultural Exchange Rate Data Set China Agricultural and Economic Data

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Agricultural Baseline Bioenergy Crops Animal Products Farm & Commodity Policy

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