U.S.
Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Marketing
Service. Information on Federal milk marketing orders, grading,
dairy market news, marketing and economic research, promotion and
research, standardization, and Federal rulemaking.
Farm Service Agency. Information
on programs related to dairy found via "search."
Foreign
Agricultural Service. Links to publications, charts, and information
on international trade. Publications of particular interest are
the monthly Dairy, Livestock, and Poultry: U.S. Trade and Prospects
and Dairy: World Markets and Trade, usually published twice
a year.
National Agricultural Statistics
Service. Historical data, publications, and the 2002 Census
of Agriculture.
Risk Management Agency.
Information about risk management programs available to producers,
including the now-concluded Dairy Options Pilot Program, a training
program for dairy producers.
Rural
Business-Cooperative Service. Research reports, cooperative
information reports, and service reports with statistics and information
on all types of cooperatives.
World Agricultural
Outlook Board. World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates
(WASDE) reports and Agricultural Outlook Forum speeches.
Other Government Agencies
Bureau of the Census.
Census data on population is used for computations of per capita
dairy product consumption. The Economic Census provides information
on dairy product firms by product used in examining concentration
issues.
Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Macroeconomic information used for market outlook and research work.
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Retail dairy product prices and milk and dairy product price indexes.
Food and Drug Administration.
Regulations and compliance related to sanitation of interstate milk
shipments, labeling of fluid milk and dairy products, and evaluation
of new animal drugs.
United
States Trade Representative. Agricultural trade position of
the United States and other trade-related information.
Other
California Department of
Food and Agriculture. California's state milk marketing program
operation and related data.
Price Instability and Risk
Management in the Dairy Industry. Proceedings of a conference
sponsored by the Pennsylvania State University and ERS, USDA, in
Alexandria, Virginia.
World Trade Organization. Multilateral
trade data and information, including agriculture.
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