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Food Prices Ease, but Thriftier Shopping Habits Remain
Christian Science Monitor – February 10, 2009
Shoppers can expect the price of necessities ranging from margarine to M&Ms to flatten, even decline, as last year's 18-year high of 6.6 percent food-at-home inflation ratchets down to a more manageable 2 percent in 2009, says Ephraim Leibtag, an economist at the US Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service in Washington.
Cash Crop: Industry Shifting Toward Large, Million-Dollar Farms
Journal-Gazette (IN) – February 8, 2009
The nation’s top-earning farms – those that earned at least $1 million in annual sales – more than doubled their market share between 1982 and 2002, according to a report the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service released in December….
Weld [County] Is No. 8 in US for Ag Production
Greeley Tribune (CO) – February 6, 2009
…he [Colorado State ag economist] said a recent report from USDA’s Economic Research Service dramatically shows the diversity of agriculture, in particular how California and Colorado match up. “This report is really interesting, and it deals with million dollar farms in the new century….”
Grocers Beef Up January Specials
Omaha World-Herald – January 19, 2009
Overall, retail beef prices have been trending higher in recent years and set a record in August, according to William F. Hahn of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service. Hahn compiles retail beef numbers using Bureau of Labor Statistics data, collected nationwide….
Vanishing Farmland: Less and Less of Merced County Is Devoted to Agriculture
Merced (CA) Sun-Star – January 3, 2009
The USDA Economic Research Service released information in December that showed California had lost about 1,000 farms between 2006 and 2007….
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in ’09 Food and Health Trends
Columbia (MO) Daily Tribune – December 31, 2008
The USDA’s Economic Research Service predicts the Consumer Price Index for all food will increase another 4 to 5 percent in 2009.
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