Rural Classifications | Economic Research Service - USDA ERS
Jan 8, 2025 · USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS) researchers and others who analyze conditions in "rural" America most often study conditions in nonmetropolitan (nonmetro) areas, defined on the basis of counties.
Careers at ERS | Economic Research Service - USDA ERS
Jan 7, 2025 · The USDA/1890 Land-Grant National Scholars Program is a partnership between USDA and the 1890 historically black land-grant colleges and universities. The program provides full tuition, fees, books, room and board to students pursuing degrees in agriculture, food, natural resource sciences, or related academic disciplines.
Household Food Security in the United States in 2023
Sep 4, 2024 · An estimated 86.5 percent of U.S. households were food secure throughout the entire year in 2023, with access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members.
Fruit and Vegetable Prices | Economic Research Service - USDA ERS
USDA, ARS’ FNDDS food groupings are broader than the specific food products priced for constructing this data product. They also include both conventional and organic products. For example, the PP-Suite average price to consume broccoli purchased raw is the average price paid for organic and conventional heads, crowns, and florets.
Rural-Urban Continuum Codes | Economic Research Service
Jan 7, 2025 · The 2023 Rural-Urban Continuum Codes distinguish U.S. metropolitan (metro) counties by the population size of their metro area, and nonmetropolitan (nonmetro) counties by their degree of urbanization and adjacency to a metro area.
Food Security in the U.S. - Definitions of Food Security
USDA made these changes in response to recommendations of an expert panel convened at USDA's request by the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the National Academies. Although new labels were introduced, the methods used to assess households' food security remained unchanged, so statistics for 2005 to now are directly comparable with ...
Precision Agriculture in the Digital Era: Recent Adoption on
Feb 22, 2023 · This report documents trends in the U.S. farm sector’s adoption of digital agriculture technologies between 1996 and 2019, with emphasis on changes since 2016, using data from USDA’s Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS).
Meat Price Spreads | Economic Research Service - USDA ERS
Jan 16, 2025 · This data set provides monthly average price values, and the differences among those values, at the farm, wholesale, and retail stages of the production and marketing chain for selected cuts of beef, pork, and broilers.
Data APIs | Economic Research Service - USDA ERS
Jan 6, 2025 · To use one of our Data APIs, you must register for a key at api.data.gov. After obtaining your key, come back to this page to access the Food Dollar or ARMS APIs.
Food Price Outlook | Economic Research Service - USDA ERS
Jan 5, 2025 · The USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS) Food Price Outlook (FPO) provides data on food prices and forecasts annual food price changes up to 18 months in the future. On a monthly basis, USDA, ERS forecasts the annual percentage change in food prices for the current year and, beginning in July each year, for the following year.