Research Guides: Agricultural Economics: Statistics

AgEcon Statistics- United States

U.S.D.A. Economics, Statistics and Market Systems
The USDA Economics, Statistics and Market Information System (ESMIS) contains nearly 2,500 reports and datasets from several agencies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). These materials cover U.S. and international agriculture and related topics. Most reports are text files that contain time-sensitive information. Most data sets are in spreadsheet format and include time-series data that are updated yearly.
Agricultural Marketing Service

Census of Agriculture
The Census of Agriculture is the source of consistent, comparable, and detailed agricultural data for every county in America. The census is conducted every 5 years.

National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)
Reports covering virtually every aspect of U.S. agriculture. Production and supplies of food and fiber, prices paid and received by farmers, farm labor and wages, farm finances, chemical use, and changes in the demographics of U.S. producers, etc.

FAOSTAT
This is a multilingual (English, French and Spanish) database currently containing over one million time-series records covering international statistics in areas including production, trade, land use, fertilizer and irrigation, fisheries and population. The time coverage of the data series sometimes varies, but is predominantly 40-50 years old. Data is downloadable. Primary Use: Searching and downloading time series data of international food and commodity information.

U.N. Comtrade
Free access to all of the data available in the UN Comtrade database, which contains more than 3.1 billion trade records starting from1962.
FASOnline: Foreign Agriculture Service
World Bank Data
Comprehensive set of data about development in countries around the globe, together with other datasets cited in the website's Data Catalog.