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Commodities, Futures, and Options

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Cooperative Extension

"This section hosts the directory of land-grant universities which are state partners of the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service. Links are provided to the schools of forestry, higher education, home economics, veterinary science, and state extension services and state experiment stations.

Country Reports

Search by report categories, country, and report type for nearly 130 countries.
U.S. Export/Import data on bulk, intermediate, and consumer-oriented agricultural products.
These reports provide valuable information about some of the United States' most important export markets.


Farm Bill

The Farm Bill of 2002.

Market Reports

Agricultural Electronic Bulletin Board
Topics cover farm marketing, farm and pest management, news releases, and the Missouri Agricultural Statistics Service. Access documents such as daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly commodity reports, newsletters, and economic commentaries.
Agriculture Fact Book
Locate information such as the structure of U.S. agriculture, the U.S. farm sector, rural America, and farm and international trade services. Available only in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.
Locate news and recent Web publications, the Iowa Ag Review , price maps, emerging issues, press releases, the CARDreport , and a list of very useful links.
This source provides a synthesis of key developments in global economy and policies affecting international trade in commodities and reviews developments of individual commodity markets.
Locate links to publications and cooperative extension services.
Strategic Soybean System (StratSoy)
Locate data such as the USDA monthly supply and demand and the SoyStats Reference Guide.
U.S.D.A. Commodity Reports
Use keyword searching and locate announcements issued about market news and by the Agricultural Statistics Board.

Periodicals

Locate background information and tables of content for issues.
Access the periodical published by the U.S.D.A. Agricultural Research Service. Current and back issues available in .PDF format.
The monthly report now available in PDF format with graphics and charts.
Access full-text articles from various farm-related periodicals.
This source gives a concise analysis of information affecting the situation and outlook for basic foodstuffs. The Statistical Appendix is a very handy reference tool.
This periodical examines trends in U.S. food consumption, food assistance, nutrition, food product development, food safety, and food product trade.
Examines the results of new rural research.
Examines the results of new rural research.

Research

"AgEcon Search is designed to electronically distribute reports of scholarly research in the field of agricultural economics." Documents are presented in PDF format.
"The Forum, which took place February 23 and 24, 1998, provided a comprehensive view of agricultural prospects and issues in a compact two-day format. Leading government and industry analysts gave their assessment of farm prospects for the year ahead."
The National Agriculture Library's Online Public Catalog (includes the most current source for AGRICOLA cataloging records) and Journal Article Citation database (subset of the AGRICOLA database, January 1989 to the present). Login as ISIS.
Information on ongoing and recently completed projects sponsored or conducted primarily within the USDA and State university research systems. Contains project summaries, project reports, and lists of recent publications coming out of the research.

 

Statistics

Access the 2004 through 1994 documents. Locate statistical charts, and tables about topics such as agricultural production, supplies, consumption, facilities, costs, and returns. Some files are in Adobe Acrobat PDF (Portable Document Format) files.
"FAOSTAT is an on-line and multilingual database currently containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics" in areas such as production and trade.
Access data on topics such as agriculture, economics, fisheries, forestry, and sustainable development.
Search two databases: 1) Weekly Average Price Comparison (for weekly cash and future prices for livestock and grains; and 2) Commodity Market Reports (for daily Iowa cash grains and closing futures prices).
Search for reports from the USDA Economics and Statistics System by data sets and reports (gopher) and by title list and subject (Web). Search for reports published by the ERS, NASS, and World Agricultural Outlook Board.

Trade Agreements

Full-text access to this agreement.
Full-text document of this agreement with Canada and Mexico.

 

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