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Food News- Season-Average Price ForecastsA futures-price forecasting model is used to provide season-average price forecasts for corn, soybeans, and wheat. In addition to the monthly forecasts for prices received, the model computes a forecast for the counter-cyclical payment rate for each commodity. The 2002 Farm Act provides for counter-cyclical payments when prices are below specified levels. […]
- Energy Use in the U.S. Food SystemEnergy is an important input in growing, processing, packaging, distributing, storing, preparing, serving, and disposing of food. Analysis using the two most recent U.S. benchmark input-output accounts and a national energy data system shows that in the United States, use of energy along the food chain for food purchases by or for U.S. households increased b […]
- World Agricultural Supply and Demand EstimatesIssued monthly, WASDE provides the most current USDA forecasts of U.S. and world supply-use balances for major grains, soybeans and products, and cotton, and U.S. supply and use data for sugar and livestock products. […]
- Agricultural Outlook Statistical IndicatorsStatistical Indicators previously published in Agricultural Outlook addressing a broad spectrum of agriculture-related issues. Includes commodity and food prices, general economic indicators, government program expenditures, farm income estimates, and trade and export statistics. […]
- Feed YearbookExamines world and U.S. production, consumption, trade, stocks, and prices for feed grains (focusing on corn). […]
- Season-Average Price Forecasts
- What Everyone Should Know About Energy
- What is the role of coal in the United States?Due to its relatively low cost and abundance, coal is used to generate about half of the electricity consumed in the United States. Coal is the largest domestically-produced source of energy. Coal use, however, results in higher amounts of carbon dioxide per unit of energy than the use of oil or natural gas. […]
- What is a cap-and-trade program and how does it work?A cap-and-trade program is designed to reduce emissions of a pollutant by placing a limit (or cap) on the total amount of emissions. The cap is implemented through a system of allowances that can be traded to minimize costs to affected sources. Cap-and-trade programs for greenhouse gas emissions would increase the costs of using fossil fuels. […]
- How can we compare or add up our energy consumption?To compare or aggregate energy consumption across different energy sources like oil, natural gas, and electricity, we must use a common unit of measure. This is similar to calculating your food energy intake by adding up the calories in whatever you eat. […]
- What is the role of coal in the United States?
- Invasive Species
- Massachusetts -- USDA Begins Control Treatments in Massachusetts against Asian Longhorned Beetle (Mar 1, 2010) March 10, 2010USDA Begins Control Treatments in Massachusetts against Asian Longhorned Beetle... […]
- Pesticide Atrazine Can Turn Male Frogs into Females (Mar 1, 2010) March 10, 2010Pesticide Atrazine Can Turn Male Frogs into Females (Mar 1,... […]
- Massachusetts -- USDA Begins Control Treatments in Massachusetts against Asian Longhorned Beetle (Mar 1, 2010) March 10, 2010
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