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- USDA: Food prices to rise 2%-2.5% in 2001
- WASHINGTON -- Food prices will rise by a moderate 2 percent to 2.5 percent this year, far behind the rate of energy cost inflation and below the overall U.S. inflation rate of about 3 percent, Agriculture Department forecasters said.
- Research articles 2001-03-05
- USDA predicts 2%-5% gain in '91 - U.S. Department of Agriculture forecast on food prices - Forecast & Trends
- Food prices
- Research articles 1991-01-07
- Modest Food Price Increases Seen This Year.
- Differing slightly from projections made last year, USDA still sees only modest food price inflation this year, according to Agricultural Economist Annette Clauson speaking at USDA's Agricultural Outlook Forum 2001. Differing slightly from projections made last year, USDA still sees only modest food...
- Research articles 2001-03-05
- USDA: drought to have little impact on overall food prices - United States Department of Agriculture - column
- USDA: Drought to have little impact on overall food prices
- Research articles 1988-09-19
- USDA: menu price hikes to outpace rises in grocery food prices in 1988 - Department of Agriculture
- USDA: menu price hikes to outpace rises in grocery food prices in 1988
- Research articles 1988-02-01
- Food price outlook: food prices projected to rise 2% to 3% in 2004.(Illustration)
- The Consumer Price Index for "all food" is projected to climb between 2% and 3% in 2004, according to new data from USDA's Economic Research Service. For 2003, USDA forecasts the all food index will range from 1.5% to 2.5% higher than 2002. The Consumer Price...
- Research articles 2003-10-13
- USDA's outlook for food prices in 2003.(United States Department of Agriculture)
- Increased consolidation among food retailers has left a smaller number of companies with a greater share of the retail food market. As of 2000, the top four food retailers accounted for 27.4% of grocery sales, up from 16.2% in 1995. Many industry ana Increased consolidation among...
- Research articles 2003-03-03
- USDA: '85 food price inflation holding at 2%-3% - column
- WASHINGTON -- There is good news--and bad--for restaurant owners in projections by the U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA on the cost of food for the final weeks of 1985. Prices for beef, veal, poultry, citrus fruit, nuts and carbonated drinks should be down. But other products containing sugar--baked...
- Research articles 1985-11-11
- Food price outlook 2004 updated.(Illustration)
- Just prior to the finding of mad cow disease in a cow in Washington State, USDA upped its food at home price forecast to 2.0% to 3.0% for 2004--slightly higher than the 1.5% to 2.5% increase forecast for 2003. Beef prices had been expected to advance ...
- Research articles 2004-01-05
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- Price and Income Affect Nutrients Consumed From Meats
- Trends in meat and poultry consumption reflect not only the health concerns of consumers, such as the link between high levels of saturated fat and cholesterol and increased risk of heart disease, but also the effect of economic factors, such as meat prices and consumers' incomes. The U.S. Department of...
- Research articles 1997-09-22
- Forecasting Consumer Price Indexes for Food: A Demand Model Approach
- Forecasting food prices is an important component of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is short-term outlook and long-term baseline forecasting activities. A food price-forecasting model is developed by applying an inverse demand system, in which prices are functions of quantities of food use and income. Therefore, these quantity and income...
- White papers 2000-02-01
- NRA: Ethanol push to hurt food costs, fry oil changes
- WASHINGTON -- The National Restaurant Association has asked the leaders of both political parties in the U.S. Senate to consider how a legislative push for stepped-up ethanol production could inflate food costs and hinder production of new trans-fat-free oils. The diversion of more corn to production of the biofuel...
- Research articles 2007-06-25
- Food prices rise by 16% year-to-date
- ST. LOUIS AP -- Rising costs for fuel, feed and fertilizer propelled grain prices to all-time highs in June, raising the overall price of crops and livestock by 16 percent this year compared to last year. Corn and soybeans hit record prices. Wheat slipped from historic highs in...
- Research articles 2008-08-01
- Public and private efforts for the national school lunch program
- The NSLP provides lunches to children in public and nonprofit private schools and residential child-care institutions. The U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA provides schools with cash and commodities to partially offset the cost of the program's food and foodservice. Additional cash is provided to subsidize lunches for low-income children. To...
- Research articles 1996-05-01
- Remember the Rice Riots?
- You might have missed it last year, what with the economy in free-fall, banks collapsing, the oil price shock, The Surge, and the election and Sarah Palin's glasses and that fierce debate over hockey moms, pigs and lipstick. But big parts of the developing world were embroiled...
- Blog posts 2009-05-15
- Sugar Policy Alliance Urges Increased Imports
- WASHINGTON ? The Sugar Policy Alliance here is urging Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to increase sugar import quotas for the current fiscal year and the upcoming year to avoid shortages. In a letter signed by ConAgra Foods, General Mills, Kraft Foods, Nestl? USA, Unilever U.S. and others, the alliance...
- News items 2009-08-10
- Phony Organics Lurk on Produce Racks
- Grocers including Whole Foods Market, Kroger and Stop & Shop have had to hire third party verifiers to root out produce that contains pesticide residue despite the green-and-white USDA Organic seal, the CEO of product tester Scientific Certification Services says. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- Child nutrition reimbursement rates.(Federal Register)(Brief Article)
- Child Nutrition Reimbursement Rates. The U.S. Department of Agriculture last month announced the new reimbursement rates for participants in the National School Lunch, School Breakfast, Child and Adult Care Food, Special Milk and After-School Snack programs. Effective July 1, 2004, through June 30, 2005, the new...
- Research articles 2004-08-01
- Are revisions to USDA crop production forecasts smoothed?
- Agricultural markets are inherently unstable, primarily due to a combination of inelastic demand for food and production technology that is subject to the natural vagaries of weather, disease, and pests. Price volatility causes many agricultural firms to rely on forecasts in decision making. Consequently, the U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA...
- Research articles 2006-11-01
- Sharp increase in U.S. food prices
- The United States Agriculture Department USDA is predicting a sharp rise of four percent in food prices this year because of more costly beef, milk, and fresh vegetables. "It looks like we are going to end up between 3.5 and four percent higher," Ephraim Leibtag, an economist with USDA's Economic...
- Research articles 2004-12-13
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