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Date: Thursday, June 29, 2023
Time: 1:00 PM ET
Duration: 1 hour
Presenters: Jerry Cessna and Angel Terán
Description:
Did you know that in recent decades, per capita consumption for several major dairy product categories has risen, including cheese, butter, and yogurt? On the other hand, per capita consumption of fluid milk has declined.
The USDA, Economic Research Service’s (ERS) Dairy Data product gives additional insights into the domestic supply, demand, and trade of various dairy products. These include data on dairy per capita consumption, fluid milk sales, milk supply by State and region, milk production and factors affecting supply and utilization of milk in all dairy products, and numbers and size of milk bottling plants. During this webinar, ERS Economists Jerry Cessna and Angel Teran will present an overview of the product, highlight its many uses and demonstrate where to find these data on the ERS website.
Register now: https://www.ers.usda.gov/conferences/data-training-webinar-dairy-data/
Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Time: 1:00 PM ET
Duration: 1 hour
Speaker: Matthew MacLachlan and Megan Sweitzer
Description: How much are food prices predicted to increase in 2023?
USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) forecasts annual food price changes in the Food Price Outlook (FPO) data product. Forecasting food price changes has become increasingly important due to the changing structure of food and agricultural economies and the important signals the forecasts provide to farmers, wholesalers, retailers, consumers, and policymakers. The FPO forecasts are primarily based on the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index (PPI) data. The CPI for food measures changes over time in the retail prices paid by consumers for food away from home and for food at home categories such as meats, dairy products, and fruits and vegetables. ERS analyzes the current index levels, examines changes, and constructs forecasts of the CPI for food. ERS also analyzes and forecasts the PPI for farm-level agricultural and wholesale food markets. Like the CPI, the PPI measures price changes over time; however, instead of measuring changes in retail prices, the PPI measures the average changes in prices paid to domestic producers for their output.
In this webinar, ERS Economists Matthew MacLachlan and Megan Sweitzer will provide an overview of the data and analysis available from the Food Price Outlook data product, highlight its uses, and demonstrate how to find the data on the ERS website.
Register here: https://globalmeetwebinar.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1600633&tp_key=b1cd4ab812
Date: Thursday, March 9, 2023
Time: 1:00 PM ET
Duration: 1 hour
Presenter: Jonathan McFadden, Economic Research Service, USDA
Description:
Digital agriculture may be a part of the solution to challenges facing U.S. agriculture, including rising production costs, climate change, and labor shortages, among others.
During this webinar, ERS Research Economist Jonathan McFadden will present an overview of the Precision Agriculture in the Digital Era: Recent Adoption on U.S. Farms report, which 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.Register now: https://globalmeetwebinar.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1601058&tp_key=c7c687bdf6
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