Featured Briefing Rooms

Agricultural Baseline Projections The USDA baseline provides longrun (10-year) projections for the agricultural sector. Projections cover agricultural commodities, agricultural trade, and aggregate indicators of the sector, such as farm income and food prices.

Bioenergy With interest in renewable energy sources intensifying, the ERS online briefing room provides links and information on commodity supply and demand, retail food prices, and impacts of bioenergy development on the food/farm sector.

Diet Quality and Food Consumption ERS provides indepth economic analyses of the Nation’s food consumption trends, consumer reactions to changes in food prices and income, dietary patterns, and the relationship between food intake and nutritional/health outcomes such as obesity.

Farm and Commodity Policy This briefing room provides a background on farm and commodity policy and an explanation of the various programs.

Farm Income and Costs The ERS farm income and costs program measures, forecasts, and explains indicators of economic performance for the U.S. farm sector and major crop and livestock farm groups.

Food Assistance and Nutrition Programs About 1 in 5 Americans participates in at least one of USDA’s food assistance programs at some point during the year, and ERS evaluates many aspects of these programs.

Food CPI, Prices, and Expenditures ERS analyzes trends in food prices and expenditures and forecasts the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for food to help industry analysts and policymakers improve their estimates of future business and program policy costs.

Measuring Rurality ERS has developed alternative classifications of rural places that capture the rich diversity of rural America in ways that are meaningful for developing public policies and programs.

Organic Agriculture ERS research results on the adoption and economics of certified organic farming systems in the United States, and the marketing structure and demand for organic food.