Outlook Reports

New Releases
Overview
Products
Special Reports (Single Issue)
E-mail Notification
Market Analysis for the 21st Century
Process

New Releases

• What the 2008/2009 World Economic Crisis Means for Global Agricultural Trade
• Younger Consumers Exhibit Less Demand for Fresh Vegetables
• Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook, "Livestock Inventories Respond to Decreased Demand"

Overview

Between May and June, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for all food remained level, after declining for 4 consecutive months. June food prices were 2.1 percent higher than in June 2008. Food-at-home decreased 0.1 percent from May, and is .8 percent above a year ago, while the food-away-from-home index increased 0.1 percent and now stands 3.8 percent higher than a year earlier. Thanks to lower feed and energy costs, prices for beef, pork, dairy products, and eggs declined between May and June. Beef prices dropped for the seventh time in the past 8 months. Retail egg prices fell .9 percent in June and are now over 18 percent below a year earlier. Despite the recent moderation, the CPI for all food is still projected to increase 2.5-3.5 percent in 2009 (the forecast a month earlier was for 3-4 percent growth).

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Products

• Aquaculture (1995-2006)
• Cotton and Wool
• Feed
• Floriculture and Nursery Crops (2002-07)
• Fruit and Tree Nuts
• Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry
• Oil Crops
• Rice
• Sugar and Sweeteners
• Tobacco (1995-2007)
• Vegetables and Melons
• Wheat

• Agricultural Baseline Projections
• Consumer Price Index for Food
• Farm Income Forecasts
• Food Consumption
• Food Expenditures
• Food Price Spreads
• Income and Finance
• Industrial Uses (1993-97)
• Trade

Special Reports (Single Issue)

• What the 2008/2009 World Economic Crisis Means for Global Agricultural Trade
• Younger Consumers Exhibit Less Demand for Fresh Vegetables
• U.S. Food Import Patterns, 1998-2007

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E-mail Notification

Readers of ERS outlook reports have two ways they can receive an e-mail notice about release of reports and associated data.

• Receive timely notification (soon after the report is posted on the web) via USDA’s Economics, Statistics and Market Information System (which is housed at Cornell University’s Mann Library). Go to the system's E-mail Delivery of Reports page and follow the instructions to receive e-mail notices about ERS, Agricultural Marketing Service, National Agricultural Statistics Service, and World Agricultural Outlook Board products.

• Receive weekly notification (on Friday afternoon) via the ERS website. Go to ERS's E-mail Updates page and follow the instructions to receive notices about ERS outlook reports, Amber Waves magazine, and other reports and data products on specific topics. ERS also offers RSS (really simple syndication) feeds for all ERS products.

Process

ERS outlook is a component of a larger USDA Process of developing and disseminating forecasts. Learn more about the process, players, and other outputs.