Agricultural Economic Reports

For nearly 100 years, administration of marketing research within the U.S. Department of Agriculture and related agencies has ranged from nearly complete centralization i [...]

Food prices, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), increased 3.3 percent in 1996. This increase was greater than the overall increase in the CPI (which rose 2.9 [...]

Food prices, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), increased 2.4 percent in 1994. This increase was less than the overall increase in the CPI for the fourth con [...]

Food prices, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), increased 2.2 percent in 1993. This increase was less than the overall increase in the CPI for the third cons [...]

U.S. grocery sales were over $820 billion in 1993. Profits from operations for food manufacturers and retailers rose in 1992 and 1993 because of continued wage and produ [...]

Food prices, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), increased 1.2 percent in 1992, less than half the 1991 price increase of 2.9 percent . The 1992 increase was [...]

Food prices, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), increased 2.9 percent in 1991, half the 1990 price increase of 5.8 percent. Higher charges for processing and [...]

Retail sales of the U.S. food marketing system were flat in 1990 and declined in 1991, after adjustments for price increases, due to the recession. Nevertheless, food ma [...]

Food prices, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), increased 5.8 percent in 1990, the same percentage increase as the year before. Higher farm prices and charge [...]

Food prices, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, increased 5.8 percent in 1989, the largest increase since 1981. Higher farm prices and costs of processing and dist [...]