The tables in this bulletin provide aggregate economic and agricultural growth, performance, production, and trade … account for over 99 percent of the world population, agricultural production, and trade. The indicators cover such topics as … population, macroeconomic indicators, food consumption, factors of production, commodity production, trade, and efficiency of …

retailing, and food service provide a detailed overview of structure, performance, information systems, new technology, and …, trade, productivity, and other indicators. At the time of publication, most of the data sets used in this report included …

'lbe tables in this bulletin provide aggregate economic and agricultural growth am perfonnance indicators for the world … production, c::cmnodity production, am trade. Raw data used to compute the indicators, as well as basic statistics, come from a …

This study compares the growth of cooperatives with noncooperative. counterparts in seven marketing and distribution …

geography and transportation in analysis of international trade. Other panels dealt with transportation technology, past and … Agricultural Trade, March 17-18, 1999, in Washington, DC. The program's objectives were to raise awareness within ERS about the … role and importance of transportation in U.S. food and agricultural trade and to discuss the need of an agency research …

. Production contracts and vertical integration in the broiler industry facilitated rapid adoption of new technology, improved …

Over the last several decades, the U.S. agricultural sector has sustained impressive productivity growth. The Nation … this growth. Economic analysis finds strong and consistent evidence that investment in agricultural research has yielded …

Innovation and changes in technology have been a driving force for gains in productivity growth in U.S. agriculture … productivity (TFP) for 1948 through 2004. American agriculture relies almost entirely on productivity growth to raise output. By … lowering the cost of agricultural commodities, productivity growth benefits not only farmers but also food manufacturers and …