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Findings from the Quarterly
Food-at-Home Price Database
(QFAHPD) and other data sources. How fast are grasslands being converted to cropland in the United States and especially in the Northern Plains? Can a temporary (5-year) ban on crop insurance purchase for converted grassland slow grassland to cropland conversion? More broadly, what has been the role of crop insurance and other farm programs in grassland to cropland conversion?

How fast are grasslands being converted to cropland in the United States and especially in the Northern Plains? Can a temporary (5-year) ban on crop insurance purchase for converted grassland slow grassland to cropland conversion? More broadly, what has been the role of crop insurance and other farm programs in grassland to cropland conversion?

What has been the role of crop
insurance and other farm programs
in grassland to cropland conversion?

Annual update to the ERS food availability per capita data system includes three related data series on food consumption.

Annual update to the ERS food
availability per capita data system
includes three related data series.

Spending on food away from home was 47.9 percent of the $1,240.4 billion in total food expenditures in 2010.

Spending on food away from home
was 47.9 percent of the $1,240.4
billion in total food expenditures in 2010. Relative prices of healthy foods vary considerably by geographic location, which may contribute to geographic variation in diet and health outcomes.

Relative prices of healthy foods vary considerably by geographic location, which may contribute to geographic variation in diet and health outcomes.

Price variability may contribute to
geographic variation in diet and
health outcomes. Dr. Willard Cochrane, one of ERS' Founding Fathers, had the ear of President John F. Kennedy.

Dr. Willard Cochrane, one of ERS' Founding Fathers, had the ear of President John F. Kennedy.

See an interview with some of ERS'
founding fathers as they reminisce
about the early days of the agency.

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