Official USA source for economic analysis and information on agriculture, food, natural resources, and rural America. Also incldues materials on international commodity markets and trading conditions.
Information services include:
(a) WWW site: full text of selected publications, print publications list, breifings on markets for agricultural commodities, analaysis of US agricultural production,
(b) Statistical series (see separate entry for selected titles): based on contents of situation/outlook reports and yearbooks. Some series also include software for presenting dataset. Downloadable from WWW site and included on CDROM
(c) ERS CDRom: Contains 102 currently active ERS Electronic Data Products (new or updated within the past 3 years) and 40 archived products (more than 3 years old but having historic value). Included on the disc are over 7,500 Lotus 1-2-3 worksheet (.WK1) files
(d) Agricultral statistics CDRom: annual disc aimed at meeting the diverse need for a reliable reference book on agricultural production, supplies, consumption, facilities, costs and returns, land resources, farm programs, crop insurance, crop loans, etc. Contains 10 years of U.S. data and 3 years of State data covering a wide variety of agricultural facts. The file is in Adobe Acrobat PDF Format.
(e) Autofax service: automatic service for delivery of ERS documents by fax (free of charge). Users need to know index number of document. Instructions on WWW site or email to williams@econ.ag.gov / nancyw@econ.ag.gov