Bank operating statistics for 1980-91 illustrate important differences between agricultural and nonagricultural banks. The agricultural banks, with a higher proportion of agricultural loans, were more profitable overall, while having more securities and fewer loans. Most agricultural banks were...

This report presents State-level peai1ut production cost and return estimates for the 1991 production year obtained from the USDA's Farm Costs and Returns Survey, along with coefficients of variation for each cost item. Per-acre costs are highly variable among States due to differences in...

Foreign persons owned 14.6 million acres of U.s. agriculturalland as of December 31, 1993. This is slightly more than.1 percent of all privately held agricultural land and 0.65 percent of all land in the United states. These and other findings are based on an analysis of reports submitted in...

This report presents historical data on food consumption, prices, expenditures, and U.S. income and population. In 1993, Americans consumed, on average, 61 pounds more of commercially grown vegetables than in 1970; 54 pounds more of grain products; 48 pounds more of fruit; 23 pounds more of added...

During 1978-89, the United States exported more fresh fruit than had been reported by the Bureau of the Census. Import data made available by Statistics Canada revealed that some shipments of fresh fruit from the United States to Canada had not been counted by the Bureau. Using the Canadian data...

Data are presented on the number, movement, and prices of cattle, calves, sheep, lambs, and hogs for 1970-1992. It also contains statistics on the number of animals slaughtered under Federal inspection and on the quality of meat processed and foreign trade data. The document is a special...