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 ...

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 September 2026 Feed Outlook report contains estimates for 2025/26, and projections for the 2026/27 U.S. and global feed markets, based on the most current World Agricultural Supply and Demand ...

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 ...

Veterinarian services are an important input into food-animal agriculture. However, veterinarian shortages in food‑animal and mixed‑animal practices have persisted across many U.S. rural areas for ...

Measuring U.S. agricultural production relies on several factors. Identifying the industries that contribute to this production informs several areas, providing a more comprehensive accounting of the ...

Honey consumption in the United States has been buzzing upward over the past 35 years. In 1990, an average U.S. consumer used scarcely more than a pound of honey per year. By 2025, per capita honey ...

Fuel ethanol has grown into a major U.S. agricultural export commodity since the early 2000s. The United States exported a record 2.13 billion gallons of fuel ethanol during the 2024/25 ...

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 ...

Rural America at a Glance is an annual report that highlights recent social and economic conditions in nonmetropolitan areas of the United States.

Blueberries are native to North America and grown throughout the United States. Varieties can be classified into two categories: cultivated, which tend to be larger, and wild, which are typically ...