Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and Technical Barriers to Trade: How Much...
Over the past two decades, expanding global trade and declining tariffs and traditional barriers to trade have brought non-tariff measures, such as sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) regulations and...
View ArticleStates Differ in the Distribution of WIC Benefits Across Types of Retail Food...
A recent ERS study found that 76 percent of WIC benefits redeemed in stores in fiscal 2012 were redeemed at supermarkets, supercenters, or other large grocery stores. Other types of stores, such as...
View ArticleProcessing and Marketing Blunt the Impact of Volatile Farm Prices on Retail...
Despite volatile farm-level milk prices over the last decade, fluctuations in retail prices for whole milk and Cheddar cheese have been comparatively moderate, with farm prices and retail prices...
View ArticleFarm Bill Income Cap for Program Payment Eligibility Affects Few Farms
The 2014 Farm Act revised the maximum income limitations (the income caps) that determine eligibility for most commodity and conservation programs and payments by replacing the separate limits on farm...
View ArticleU.S.-Mexico Agricultural Trade: Opportunities for Making Free Trade Under...
Modifying border processes and procedures in ways that make U.S.-Mexico agricultural trade more agile—thereby allowing agricultural products to cross the border more easily and quickly—is one approach...
View ArticleLand Acquisition and Transfer in U.S. Agriculture
In 2015-19, just over 2 percent of land in farms is expected to be sold in an arm’s-length transaction in which the buyer and seller are not related. Most land that will be sold to nonrelatives in the...
View ArticleProductivity Growth Is Still the Major Driver in Growing U.S. Agricultural...
To monitor the U.S. farm sector’s performance, ERS develops total factor productivity (TFP) statistics measured as total agricultural output per unit of aggregate input, with each adjusted for price...
View ArticleFor Beginning Farmers, Business Survival Rates Increase With Scale and With...
Beginning farmers—those who have managed a farm or ranch for 10 years or less—generally have lower rates of business survival than more established farm operators. According to Census of Agriculture...
View ArticleVoluntary Labeling of Chicken “Raised Without Antibiotics” Has Posed...
Many consumers want information about how their food is produced, including how farmers raise the animals they eat. Challenges may arise for firms as well as consumers when firms introduce label claims...
View ArticleU.S. Beef and Pork Consumption Projected To Rebound
Beef production and pork production are projected to grow by 11.7 percent and 10.3 percent, respectively, from 2016 to 2015. As a result, beef and pork prices are projected to drop over the period,...
View ArticlePercent of Income Spent on Food Falls as Income Rises
Over the past two and a half decades, U.S. households in the lowest income quintile spent between 29 and 43 percent of their annual before-tax income on food, compared with 7 to 9 percent spent by...
View ArticleAn Economic Perspective on Soil Health
Soil health builds upon soil conservation by encouraging farmers to manage soil as a living ecosystem, in addition to reducing soil erosion. Healthy soils can have benefits to society and to farmers....
View ArticleAmericans’ Seafood Consumption Below Recommendations
According to ERS’s loss-adjusted food availability data, U.S. seafood consumption in 2014 averaged 2.7 ounces per week, about one-third of the recommended minimum of 8 ounces per week.
View ArticleThe Gulf Opportunity Zone Helped Affected Counties Recover Economically After...
Holding other factors constant, such as assistance from traditional disaster relief programs, findings show significant differences in income and employment growth between counties that suffered...
View ArticleIncreased Consumer Sensitivity to Food Safety Raised Financial Costs of...
During the 2 years following the December 2003 discovery of a BSE-positive cow in the United States, consumers’ purchases of ground beef fell by an average of 0.26 pounds per person following each of...
View ArticleFood Price Inflation Has Outpaced Economy-Wide Inflation in Recent Years
Throughout much of the 1990s and early 2000s, food price inflation was lower than economy-wide inflation. However in 7 of the last 9 years, food prices have posted bigger increases than overall inflation.
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