Over the past 40 years, Brazil’s agricultural production has grown rapidly, fueled by the expansion of cultivated land, ...

The Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook for October 2026 analyzes economic impacts of month-to-month changes in USDA’s “World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates” report on domestic and ...

Genetically engineered (GE) crop varieties have achieved widespread adoption in major field crops, accounting for more than 90 percent of corn, soybean, and cotton acreage in the United States since ...

This report covers basic supply, demand, price, and trade analysis for fruit and tree nuts. Commodities discussed include almonds, cashews, peaches, cherries, grapes ...

The Resource Requirements of Food Demand (RRFD) data product measures the U.S. food system’s annual, embodied use of natural and human resources. These estimates are generated from a resource ...

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The April 2026 Vegetables and Pulses Outlook report reviews supply, availability, prices, trade, and import reliance for vegetables and pulses. It examines tomato market activity following the ...

USDA’s National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provided more than 4.8 billion lunches in fiscal year (FY) 2024, and nearly 246 billion lunches since FY 1969. The program operates in nearly 100,000 public ...

Since the 1930s, total U.S. milk production has increased, while the number of U.S. dairy farms has declined. Over the past few decades, fewer, larger farms have produced more milk. Researchers at ...

ERS research shows that U.S. adoption of precision dairy technologies related to milking, breeding, and data systems has increased steadily since 2000. These technologies include sensors, data ...

An estimated 86.3 percent of U.S. households were food secure throughout the entire year in 2024, with access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The ...