The USDA/1890 Land-Grant National Scholars Program is a partnership between USDA and the 1890 historically black land-grant colleges and universities. The program provides full tuition, fees, books, room and board to students pursuing degrees in agriculture, food, natural resource sciences, or related academic disciplines.

Dec 16, 2024 · The Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook for December 2024 analyzes economic impacts of month-to-month changes in USDA’s “World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates” report on domestic and international markets for …

Jan 8, 2025 · USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS) researchers and others who analyze conditions in "rural" America most often study conditions in nonmetropolitan (nonmetro) areas, defined on the basis of counties.

Jan 8, 2025 · For more information, see the USDA, ERS report: Food Insecurity in Households With Children: Prevalence, Severity, and Household Characteristics, 2010-11. How Many People Lived in Food-insecure Households? In 2023: 47.4 million people lived in food-insecure households. 12.2 million adults lived in households with very low food security.

Oct 8, 2024 · The USDA, Economic Research Service’s Food Expenditure Series tracks spending on food at home and food away from home. In 2023, the series shows, per capita food spending by U.S. consumers, businesses, and Government entities reached a high of $7,672, fueled primarily by a 12-percent increase in spending on food away from home.

Sep 4, 2024 · An estimated 86.5 percent of U.S. households were food secure throughout the entire year in 2023, with access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members.

Feb 22, 2023 · This report documents trends in the U.S. farm sector’s adoption of digital agriculture technologies between 1996 and 2019, with emphasis on changes since 2016, using data from USDA’s Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS).

Jan 7, 2025 · The United States is the world’s second largest agricultural trader, behind the European Union. U.S. agricultural exports and imports increased significantly over the last 25 years due to the economic ascension of many emerging economies, as well as the implementation of foreign and domestic policies that expanded U.S. access to foreign markets.

Charts of Note from ERS is distributed Monday–Friday by the Economic Research Service to highlight charts of interest from our current and past research.

Jan 8, 2025 · Source:USDA, Economic Research Service using data from the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, and U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. The choice of a rural definition should be based on the purpose of the application, whether that application is for research, policy analysis, or program implementation.