Research & Productivity

• Agricultural Productivity
• Agricultural Research
• Biotechnology
• Farm Management & Performance
• Genetic Resources
• Global Productivity
• Intellectual Property Rights

Adoption of Genetically Engineered Crops in the U.S.

This data product summarizes the extent of adoption of herbicide-tolerant and insect-resistant genetically engineered crops in the United States. Data cover GE varieties of corn, cotton, and soybeans over the 2000-2008 period, by State.
7/2/2008 2:30:00 PM

Agricultural Productivity in the United States

Increased productivity is the main contributor to growth in U.S. agriculture. This data set provides estimates of productivity growth in the U.S. farm sector over the period 1948-2004, and estimates of the growth and relative levels of productivity across the individual States for the 1960-2004 period.
5/13/2008 2:00:00 PM

Agricultural Research Funding in the Public and Private Sector

These time series data for public and private funding of agricultural research and development cover the years 1970-98 (private) and 1970-2001 (public). Data are available either as nominal figures or corrected for inflation.
10/27/2003

Commodity and Food Elasticities

The Commodity and Food Elasticities Database is a collection of elasticities from research on consumer demand published in working papers, dissertations, and peer-reviewed journals and as presented at professional conferences in the United States. Most of the literature is from U.S. academic and government research. The database allows queriable searches of income, expenditure, and own- and cross-price elasticities for specific commodities and countries, which can be ranked and sorted. The most fully covered countries are the United States and China, and the greatest number of demand studies are for vegetables, fruits, and grocery products such as coffee and ketchup.
10/5/2007 9:00:00 AM

Commodity Costs and Returns Data

USDA has estimated annual production costs and returns and published accounts for major field crop and livestock enterprises since 1975. Cost and return estimates are reported for the U.S. and major production regions for corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, grain sorghum, rice, peanuts, oats, barley, sugarbeets, tobacco, milk, hogs, and cow-calf. These cost and return accounts are historical accounts based on the actual costs incurred by producers during each year.
12/12/2007

Plant Breeding Research and Development

Based on a 1994 national plant breeding study conducted by Dr. Ken Frey of Iowa State University, this data product provides the level of plant breeding effort (in terms of staff years and estimated expenditures) in the U.S. by academia and the public and private sector. The study is a comprehensive accounting of national plant breeding efforts, and provides the only national benchmark to compare current and/or future efforts and developments in this critically important area of research. In an effort to compare and update the information in the 1994 study, a follow-up study was done to describe U.S. plant breeding investment in 2001.
6/20/2007 3:00:00 PM

Trends in Extension Staffing

Data page for information on level and allocation of Extension staffing by State, delivered through spreadsheets.
10/7/2002 12:00:00 PM