- USDA ERS - Home | Economic Research Service
The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America
- Food Access Research Atlas - USDA ERS
The Food Access Research Atlas (formerly the Food Desert Locator) is a mapping tool that allows users to investigate multiple indicators of food store access This tool expands upon previous estimates to provide a spatial overview of food access indicators by census tract, incorporates alternative estimates of low-income and low-access census tracts, and offers contextual information for all
- Food Security in the U. S. - Key Statistics Graphics
For more information, see the USDA, ERS report: Food Insecurity in Households With Children: Prevalence, Severity, and Household Characteristics, 2010-11 How Many People Lived in Food-insecure Households? In 2023: 47 4 million people lived in food-insecure households 12 2 million adults lived in households with very low food security
- Livestock and Meat Domestic Data | Economic Research Service - USDA ERS
The Livestock Meat Domestic Data contains current and historical data on pork, beef, veal, and poultry, including production, supply, utilization, and farm prices
- Rural-Urban Continuum Codes | Economic Research Service - USDA ERS
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 The division of counties as either metro or nonmetro, based on the 2023 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) delineation of metro areas, is further subdivided into
- Food Security in the U. S. | Economic Research Service - USDA ERS
Selected USDA, ERS resources on numerous topics central to food and nutrition security are available on the Nutrition Security Research Resources page In 2015, USDA, ERS released the 20th year of statistics on household food security in the United States
- Livestock and Meat International Trade Data - USDA ERS
The Livestock and Meat International Trade data set contains monthly and annual data for imports and exports of live cattle, hogs, sheep, and goats, as well as beef and veal, pork, lamb and mutton, chicken meat, turkey meat, and eggs
- Commodity Costs and Returns | Economic Research Service - USDA ERS
USDA has estimated annual production costs and returns and published accounts for major field crop and livestock enterprises since 1975 Cost and return estimates are reported for the United States and major production regions for corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, grain sorghum, rice, peanuts, oats, barley, milk, hogs, and cow-calf These cost and return accounts are "historical" accounts based
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