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New Charts of Note Mobile App Provides 24/7 Access to Thousands of Economic Research Service Charts

April 20, 2022 Spiro Stefanou, USDA, Economic Research Service Administrator

In today’s world, keeping up with the latest news and research can feel like a full-time job. Fortunately, USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) has launched a new Charts of Note Mobile App designed to deliver digital snapshots of research straight to your mobile device.

Research and Science Technology

ERS Showcases the Best of Its Popular "Charts of Note" Series

January 04, 2017 Mary Bohman, Administrator, Economic Research Service

Pictures may be worth a thousand words, but they can also help put numbers into a clearer perspective. That‘s why USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) each day presents a graph or map with brief accompanying text that tells a visual mini-story about food, farming or rural America. Delivered to PCs...

Initiatives

Using Market Data to Feed the World

July 05, 2016 Elizabeth Dann, Office of the Chief Scientist

In 2050, there will be about 9 billion people in the world. How do you feed 9 billion people? Clearly, we need more food, greater production, and more efficient processes, but how do we achieve that and how does that translate to success? The answer may be found through science and data. USDA works...

Food and Nutrition Research and Science

School Breakfast Program Provides Increasing Number of Meals

August 26, 2015 Victor Oliveira, Economic Research Service

Sometimes called the “most important meal of the day” for school-aged children, breakfast is available at nearly 90,000 schools across the country courtesy of USDA’s School Breakfast Program. On an average school day in fiscal 2014, some 13.5 million students participated. The Economic Research...

Food and Nutrition

Choosing the Best of ERS's 2013 Popular Charts of Note

December 23, 2013 Mary Bohman, Administrator, Economic Research Service

Did you know… …that small family farms account for most U.S. farms and for a majority of farm assets? …that nonmetro areas declined in population--perhaps for the first time--in 2011-12? …or that the inflation-adjusted value of SNAP benefits declined from 2009 to 2011?

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