AgExporter - monthly magazine for businesses selling farm products overseas provides tips on exporting, descriptions of markets with the greatest sales potential, and information on export assistance available from the USDA.
Ag Market News Grain and Oilseed Reports, USDA - provides links on a state-by-state basis to market reports on grain, beans, peas, lentils, rice, sunflower and oilseed, export grain bids, and barge grain movements.
Agricultural Baseline Projections -- extrapolates long-term commodity projections based on assumptions regarding macroeconomic conditions, policy, weather, and international development. Also contains projections of agricultural trade and aggregate indicators of the sector such as farm income and food prices.
Agricultural Marketing Service - enforces federal laws in six commodity divisions (cotton, dairy, fruit and vegetable, livestock and seed, poultry, and tobacco), oversees marketing agreements and orders, administers research and promotion programs, and purchases commodities for federal food programs.
Economic Research Service, USDA (ERS) - official information source for agricultural economics. Provides economic and other social science information and analysis for public and private decisions on agriculture, food, natural resources, and rural America.
Economics and Statistics System - contains nearly 300 reports and datasets from the economics agencies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. These materials cover U.S. and international agriculture and related topics.
Foreign Agricultural Service - FAS Online - collects data on foreign agriculture production, policies, and trade; promotes U.S. agricultural products; and analyzes and disseminates information about global supply and demand, trade trends, and emerging market opportunities. FAS Online is searchable.
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyard Administration (GIPSA) - responsible for marketing livestock, poultry, meat, cereals, oilseeds, and related agricultural products, and promoting fair and competitive trading practices. GIPSA consists of the Federal Grain Inspection Service (FGIS) and the Packers and Stockyards Programs (P&S).
U.S. Trade Internet System - reports American International Trade statistics from the inception of the Harmonized coding system in 1989 to the present. It provides a powerful tariff code search system and several data output and formatting options.
Production, Supply, and Distribution (PSandD Online) - database containing current and historical official data on production, supply, and distribution of agricultural commodities for the U.S. and key producing and consuming countries.
Risk Management Agency - RMA Online - helps producers manage their business risks through market-based risk management solutions. RMA operates and manages the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC).
