Agriculture
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Getting Started
- Statistical Abstract of the United States – Agriculture. This section presents statistics on farms and farm operators; land use; farm income, expenditures, and debt; farm output, productivity, and marketings; foreign trade in agricultural products; specific crops; and livestock, poultry, and their products.
- Agricultural Statistics is an annual publication of the USDA. It is published each year to meet the diverse need for a reliable reference book on agricultural production, supplies, consumption, facilities, costs, and returns. Alternative access: print reference book (1936-present) and CD-ROM.
- Atlas of American agriculture: the American cornucopia.
- United States Department of Agriculture
- Economic Research Service
- State Fact Sheet provides information on population, employment, income, farm characteristics, farm financial indicators, and top commodities, exports, and counties for each states in the United States.
- National Agricultural Statistics Service and the Michigan Department of Agriculture
- Michigan Statistics provides state and county level data. Includes quick stats, county estimates, Michigan agricultural overview, Census of Agriculture, interactive statistical map.
- Michigan Annual Statistical Bulletin
- Michigan Agricultural Statistics print edition available back to 1950.
- Economic Research Service
- United States Department of Agriculture
- Economic Research Service is a primary source of economic information and research including issues involving food, farming, natural resources, and rural development.
- Foreign Agricultural Service has U.S. trade reports.
- U.S. Internet Trade System reports the United States international trade statistics on Agricultural, Fish, Forest and Textile Products from the inception of the Harmonized coding system in 1989 to the present.
- National Agricultural Statistics Service provides timely, accurate, and useful statistics in service to U.S. agriculture. NASS publishes U.S., state, and county level agricultural statistics for many commodities and data series.
- Census of Agriculture taken every five years, is a complete count of U.S. farms and ranches and the people who operate them. The Census looks at land use and ownership, operator characteristics, production practices, income and expenditures and many other areas. Print copies available in the Main Library Census Alcove (1 East).
- Economics, Statistics and Market Information System is a collaborative project between Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University and several agencies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The system contains nearly 2500 reports and datasets. These materials cover U.S. and international agriculture and related topics. Available titles include both current and historical data. Data is available from the following agencies: Economic Research Service, Foreign Agricultural Service, National Agricultural Statistics Service, World Agricultural Outlook Board, and Agricultural Marketing Service.
- National Pesticide Use Database compiled by the Crop Protection Research Institute of the CropLife Foundation, contains quantitative data on the use of fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, and other pesticides in U.S. crop production.
- EarthTrends is an initiative of the World Resources Institute. It is an online collection of information regarding the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world.
- The Agriculture and Food subject area includes a searchable database with information on agricultural inputs, production, food aid, labor, land, livestock, nutrition, organic farming, trade, and others. Data tables cover topics such as exports, imports, inputs, and production. Topical maps and country profiles are also available.
- International Food Policy Research Institute collaborates with institutions throughout the world and is often involved in the collection of primary data and the compilation and processing of secondary data. The resulting datasets provide a wealth of information at the local (household and community), national, and global levels. The following types of data are available: geospatial data, household and community level surveys, institution level surveys, regional data (China), social accounting matrices, agricultural science and technology indicators.
- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
- SourceOECD Statistics includes a section on Agriculture and Food. Databases include the Agricultural Commodities Outlook Database, Agricultural Policies in Emerging and Transition Economies, Economic Accounts for Agriculture, and Producer and Consumer Support Estimates.
- United Nations
- Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations provides several different databases dealing with international agricultural issues. The library also contains many print reports that can be identified in the catalog by conducting an author search. For example, the FAO Statistics Series includes the FAO Trade Yearbook.
- FAOSTAT is an on-line and multilingual database currently containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics in the following areas: Production, Trade, Food Balance Sheets, Food Aid Shipments, Fertilizer and Pesticides, Land Use and Irrigation, Forest Products, Fishery Products, Population, Agricultural Machinery.
- Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade). A searchable database of import and export data from over 130 countries that provide the United Nations Statistics Division with their annual international trade statistics, detailed by commodity and partner country. For many countries the data coverage starts as far back as 1962 and goes up to the most recent completed year.
- Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations provides several different databases dealing with international agricultural issues. The library also contains many print reports that can be identified in the catalog by conducting an author search. For example, the FAO Statistics Series includes the FAO Trade Yearbook.
- United States Department of Agriculture
- Foreign Agricultural Service works to improve foreign market access for U.S. products, build new markets, improve the competitive position of U.S. agriculture in the global marketplace, and provide food aid and technical assistance to foreign countries. It includes agricultural trade data, agricultural production data, and market reports. Also includes U.S. agricultural import and export data.
- Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research contains a number of studies on the subject of agriculture. For example:
- Great Plains Population and Environment Data: Agricultural Data, 1870-1997. The agricultural data included in this collection consist of a single data file for each agricultural census year between 1870 and 1997 that includes selected material compiled as part of the United States Agricultural Census.
- Southern Farms Study, 1860. This study presents 1860 data on population and farm production in 5,228 farms located in 405 major cotton-producing counties in the South.
- Check the MSU Electronic Resources pages for Agriculture and Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics.
- MSU Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics Department Publications bibliography