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Facts For You: Agriculture and Food

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  • Agricultural Information for Your State – Get reports on citrus, livestock, the weather and many farm products for your state. Subscribe to e-mail reports about the states and topics of your choice.
  • Assess Your Weight – Calculate your own body mass index and find suggestions and scientific data on what works to prevent and treat those who are overweight or obese.
  • Drought Monitor – View map showing weekly updates of drought conditions throughout the U.S.
  • Farm Labor Costs in Your State and County –  – Find costs for hired and contract farm labor, based on the 1992 Census of Agriculture.
  • Farm Market Prices – Get daily price and market reports for poultry, produce, livestock, eggs and other farm products.
  • Find Facts About Agriculture – Find maps of where alfalfa and apples grow in the U.S., which Congressional district has the most hog farms and many other facts from the Census of Agriculture.
  • Food Stamp Participants in Your State – Food Stamps serve to prevent hunger, enabling low-income families to buy nutritious food with coupons. Find out how many people and households in your state have received food stamps each year over the last five years.
  • How Many Americans Are Hungry? – Find statistics on food security and how to determine whether people in your community are hungry.
  • Score Your Diet! – Enter what you eat on any given day and use the Interactive Healthy Eating Index to score the overall quality of your diet for that day.
  • Track Foodborne Disease Outbreaks – Most recent information on illnesses that are food-related.
  • What's Happening to Farms and Farmers in Your State? – Find facts on agriculture and agribusiness, farms, farmer income, leading crops and exports for all of the United States from the Department of Agriculture.

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