Foreign persons owned 14.5 million acres of U.S. agricultural land as of December 31, 1996. This is slightly more than 1 percent of all privately held agricultural land and 0.64 percent of all land in the United States. These and other findings 8.1e based on an analysis of reports submitted in...

Domestic Sales and exports of U.S. farm machinery have fallen since 1931 due to weak farm economics at home and abroad. In the United States, gross capital expenditures for new and used farm machinery skyrocketed during the 1970's, peaked in 1979 at $11.8 billion, and then declined to $7.3...

Indices of total and per capita agricultural and food production for Europe and the U.S.S.R. are presented for the base period 1961-65 and annually for 1970-79. Data for population, agricultural production, and aggregates of agricultural and food production are also included. Country indices are...

The financial condition of banks, both nonmetro and metro, generally deteriorated in 1986. Based on weighted statistics (which treat banks as an aggregate and may be dominated by a few large banks), aggregate profits for all U.S. banks fell 9 percent, expenditures to protect against upcoming...