Agricultural & Resource Economics

This catalog is the authoritative source of publicly available USDA data.

USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service
Census of Agriculture, USDA Agricultural Statistics publications, historical data, state information.

Main source of economic information and research from the US Department of Agriculture, provides economic analysis "to inform and enhance public and private decisionmaking on economic and policy issues related to agriculture, food, natural resources, and rural development."

FRED, created and maintained by the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, is an online database for economic data.

Current price and sales information for American commodities.

The Council on Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics (C-FARE) is a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC. C-FARE promotes the work of applied economists and serves as a catalyst for incorporating economic thinking into the analysis of food, agricultural and resource decisions. (C-FARE) serves as a conduit between the academic research and extension community and Washington, DC policymakers and agency personnel, matching expertise to public needs.

International statistical database containing "(a) country-level data referring to items such as agricultural production and trade, producer prices, land use, means of production, etc., (b) derived data such as agricultural production and trade indices, food supply etc., and (c) data referring to items such as population and labor force that are derived by, or in collaboration with, other international agencies."

Broad statistical data coverage for all the nations of the world drawn from United Nations sources and other international statistical resources. Covers economic, social, and political sectors.

Publishes essential economic statistics like GDP, income, and trade to guide policy and research.

U.S. Department of Agriculture
Find PLSS, climate, elevation, geographic names, hydrography, land cover, soils and transportation data available here by state, county, place or specify area from interactive map.

A geospatial data service which offers automated updates of vegetative condition at daily, weekly, and biweekly intervals. VegScape delivers interactive vegetation indices that enable quantification of U.S. crop conditions for exploring, visualizing, querying, and disseminating via interactive maps.

A geospatial data service which offers advanced tools such as interactive visualization, web-based data dissemination and geospatial queries and automated data delivery to systems such as Google Earth.

This database contains statistics on food crop production, harvested area and yields for more than 130 countries in Africa, Asia, Near East in Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America and Oceania.

Download shapefiles and layers or image files of land use stratification for available states. Use the FAQ to learn more about the data.

USDA’s regional hubs will deliver information to farmers, ranchers and forest landowners to help them adapt to climate change and weather variability. The Hubs will build capacity within USDA to provide information and guidance on technologies and risk management practices at regional and local scales.