Rural households spend a higher percentage of their income on at-home energy expenditures than urban households. Higher rural ...

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 ...

USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS) provides descriptive data on U.S. consumers’ diet quality, including intakes of nutrients and consumption of food groups based on recommendations of the Dietary ...

ERS examines economic, social, and environmental factors influencing consumers’ food choices. Food choices and diet quality are influenced by food prices, household income, economic incentives, and ...

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 ...

The Food-at-Home Monthly Area Prices (F-MAP) data product provides monthly food price data over time, across food groupings, and across geographic areas. F-MAP includes monthly prices for 90 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The analysis of international baseline projections for global trade through 2035 was not conducted in 2026 and will not be published.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 ...

The Commodity Highlights Visualization is an interactive data tool that offers a comprehensive time series for more than 70 individual fresh and processed vegetable and pulse commodities. Users can ...

Warmer-than-average spring temperatures accelerated crop development across California’s major fruit-producing regions, prompting earlier-than-usual harvests for cherry, peach, table grape, strawberry ...