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Animal Production and Marketing Issues: Recommended Data Products

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Livestock and Meat Trade Data contains monthly and annual data for imports and exports of live cattle, hogs, sheep, and goats, as well as beef and veal, pork, lamb and mutton, chicken meat, turkey meat, and eggs. The tables report physical quantities, not dollar values or unit prices. Data on beef and veal, pork, and lamb and mutton are on a carcass-weight-equivalent basis. Breakdowns by country are included.

Meat Price Spreads presents monthly data on farm-to-retail price spreads for beef, pork, broilers, turkeys, and eggs in Excel and html formats. Also included are farm-to-wholesale and wholesale-to-retail spreads and retail prices.

Aquaculture Data provides statistics on domestically grown catfish and trout and U.S. imports and exports of fish and shellfish that may be products of aquaculture, such as salmon, shrimp, and oysters.

Commodity Costs and Returns provides time-series and regional estimates of annual production costs and returns for major field crop and livestock enterprises.

Commodity Yearbooks contain annual historical market data for beef, pork, lamb, dairy, and poultry.

Retail Scanner Prices for Meat contains monthly average retail price data for selected cuts of beef, pork, poultry, lamb, and veal, based on electronic supermarket scanner data.

Commodity and Food Elasticities 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 elasticities are mainly from U.S. research on consumer demand published in working papers, dissertations, and peer-reviewed journals. The greatest number of demand studies are for vegetables, fruits, meat, and grocery products in the United States and China.

Historic Data Products

USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service provides additional historical data for livestock, dairy, and poultry through its Final Estimates series, where reports span 4- or 5-year intervals. Most reports are in PDFPDF file format, although those from 1993 and earlier are generally in a txt format.

In addition, other livestock and poultry historical data are available from USDA, including:

Additional Data Products

Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States (FATUS) provides U.S. agricultural exports and imports, volume and value, by country, by commodity, and by calendar year, fiscal year, and month, for varying periods, such as 1935 to the present or 1989 to the present. Updated monthly or annually.

World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) provides monthly USDA forecasts for U.S. commodities, including livestock products.

Production, Supply and Distribution (PS&D) contains official USDA data on production, supply, and distribution of agricultural commodities for the United States and major importing and exporting countries. The database provides projections for the coming year and historical data for more than 200 countries and major crop, livestock, fishery, and forest products.

 

For more information, contact: Michael McConnell

Web administration: webadmin@ers.usda.gov

Updated date: November 17, 2008