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  Demand for Alternative Feed Grains for Broiler Production in an Era of Global Price Uncertainty: The Case of Sorghum

  With rising incomes and population, the demand for chicken meat is expected to increase, meaning there will likely be an increase in feed demand. This is an opportunity to increase the share of global sorghum exports for countries like the United States.

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  Manufacturers' Bids for Infant Formula Rebate Contracts, 2013–23

  This study summarizes trends in infant formula rebate contracts and examines factors that contribute to these trends. For contracts in effect in March 2023, WIC State agencies, on average, received rebates that exceeded manufacturers’ wholesale prices for their formula. This resulted in greater savings to WIC compared with previous contracts.

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  Nonfamily Farm Operations and the Households That Operate Them

  This report explores nonfamily farms, which make up about 2 percent of total U.S. farms from 2018-22. When compared to similarly sized family farms, nonfamily farms owned more acres, but their households have lower wealth, income, and debt.

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  European Agri-Food Trade and Brexit: The First 3 Years of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement

  This analysis looks at the effects of trade across a range of agri-food and commodity groups since the United Kingdom formally left the European Union on January 31, 2020.

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  Estimating the USDA, Economic Research Service Commodity Costs and Returns and the Milk Cost of Production Estimates Data Series

  This report describes the methods used by USDA to estimate annual cost and return estimates for 12 commodities: barley, corn, cotton, cow-calf, hogs, milk, oats, peanuts, rice, sorghum, soybeans, and wheat.

• Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade: February 2025

  This report presents and discusses USDA’s February 2025 quarterly USDA forecast for agricultural trade in the United States for fiscal year 2025.

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  Irrigation Organizations: Water Measurement and Pricing

  This report uses data from the 2019 Survey of Irrigation Organizations (SIO) to characterize the state of water measurement and pricing practices among organizations delivering water to farms and ranches.

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  Aging and Wildfire Risk to Communities

  This report examines the link between where older people live and wildfire risk. It examines population aging and wildfire risk for States, counties, and fire management areas.

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  Understanding Data About the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in the Circana Consumer Network Panel

  This report investigates the quality of two self-reported variables related to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participation. Both can be used to examine the food-at-home purchase behavior of SNAP households.

• Sugar and Sweeteners Outlook: February 2025

  The February 2025 Sugar and Sweeteners Outlook explains USDA’s changes in the official 2023/24 and 2024/25 projections for the U.S. and Mexico sugar and sweetener supply and use that were released in the February 11 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report.