October 2004
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3	4	5	6	7 Agricultural Outlook Statistical Indicators	8 Farm and Farm-related Employment	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20 Retail Scanner Prices for Meat	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28	29	30
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THIS MONTH AT ERS - [October 1, 2004 - October 31, 2004]
Thursday, October 7, 2004
Agricultural Outlook Statistical Indicators Statistical Indicators previously published in Agricultural Outlook addressing a broad spectrum of agriculture-related issues. Includes commodity and food prices, general economic indicators, government program expenditures, farm income estimates, and trade and export statistics.
Friday, October 8, 2004
Farm and Farm-related Employment New data for 2001, the latest year for which detailed industry-level data are available, show that farming and its related industries provided 24.4 million jobs, or about 14.6 percent of total U.S. employment. Farm production employment, which includes farm proprietors and hired farmworkers, accounted for 3.1 million of these jobs. ERS has released new data on farm and farm-related employment for 2001, and revised the estimates for 1998-2000.
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Retail Scanner Prices for Meat Average monthly weighted retail price data for selected cuts of red meat and poultry based on electronic supermarket scanner data. While not based on a random sample, the raw data underlying the database are from supermarkets across the United States that account for approximately 20 percent of U.S. supermarket sales. This data set supplements similar data supplied by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Currently, BLS data are used to derive ERS published price spreads from farm to retail.
3 releases of 3 products this month on 3 different days.

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