In the last 15 years, changing skill demands among rural employers have elevated the importance of a college education. This report examines trends in the U.S. rural college labor force, focusing on ...

This page provides select findings from the March 2026 Food Dollar update, which released the 2024 Food Dollar data and revised data for previous years. With this update, the Food Dollar model and ...

ERS develops and monitors indicators of individual, household, and market-level food consumption, prices, expenditures, food marketing costs, and farm-to-retail price spreads. Food choices are ...

Note: The analysis of international baseline projections for global trade through 2035 was not conducted in 2026 and will not be published. ERS International Baseline Data web pages provide multiple ...

This annual report describes U.S. farm and ranch characteristics using recent data from the Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS), an annual survey of agricultural producers. Two special ...

This is a list of ERS specialists by topic. For more information on these topics please contact the specialists listed below or browse our subject areas. The ERS staff directory has a complete list of ...

This page summarizes the September 2026 Food Price Outlook forecasts, which incorporate the August 2026 Consumer Price Index and Producer Price Index numbers. See the Overview page for Consumer Price ...

The 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, ERS forecasts the annual percentage change in ...

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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 ...

The U.S. Cooperative Extension Service provides non-formal education through land-grant universities. Since the 1970s, Extension funding has diversified and professional staff and Federal funding have ...