Overview
Livestock and poultry account for over half of U.S. agricultural cash receipts, often exceeding $100 billion per year. ERS analyzes conditions and events that influence supply, demand, trade, and prices in livestock, dairy, poultry, and aquaculture markets. This briefing room examines issues not easily assigned to a particular livestock commodity, such as price reporting or animal health and welfare.
Information about specific livestock commodities
are in separate briefing rooms.
Features
Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry
Outlook (monthly) provides market information reports
and assesses the impact of existing, proposed, or potential
policies and practices on location (domestic and international)
and structure of production and processing of animal products.
Global Agricultural Supply and Demand: Factors Contributing to the Recent Increase in Food Commodity Prices (May 2008) explores the many factors that have contributed to the runup in food commodity prices over the last 2 years.
Economic Impacts of Foreign Animal Disease (May 2008) presents a quarterly livestock and crop modeling framework in which epidemiological model results are integrated with an economic model of the U.S. agricultural sector to estimate the economic impacts of outbreaks of foreign-source livestock diseases. A hypothetical outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) results in large trade-related losses for beef, beef cattle, hogs, and pork, even though relatively few animals are destroyed. The best control strategies prove to be those that reduce the duration of the outbreak.
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