Economic Information Bulletin

The population of the United States is aging as the Baby Boom generation grows older. In 2020, 23 percent of the U.S. population had reached age 60 (older ages). The sh [...]

Organic agriculture is an important agricultural sector, experiencing substantial growth in sales for the past two decades. In 2023, total organic retail sales were $69. [...]

This study examines the trends and patterns of real wages, employer sponsored healthcare insurance coverage, and retirement benefits between 2000 and 2022. The analysis [...]

This report is the 2023 edition of the annual U.S. Agricultural Policy Review series documenting developments in U.S. Federal policies related to production agriculture, [...]

American farms represent a diverse set of business operations and farm operators. This annual report describes the characteristics of U.S. farms and ranches with the most [...]

Rural America at a Glance is an annual report that highlights recent social and economic conditions in rural areas of the United States. This edition focuses on the age [...]

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is the Nation's second-largest food and nutrition assistance program, providing billions of meals to tens of millions of children [...]

Ad hoc assistance programs that specifically target agricultural producers are occasionally authorized to provide support in the event of natural disasters or unprecedent [...]

The United States has a total land area of 2.26 billion acres. In 2017, the major uses of land were grassland pasture and rangeland at 659 million acres (29 percent of th [...]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Reserve Program (CRP)—the agency’s largest land retirement program—pays landowners a yearly rental fee to plant and main [...]