Agricultural Outlook

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Articles in March, 1992 issue of Agricultural Outlook

• Livestock, dairy & poultry overview - 1992 - U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service report
• Field crops overview - 1991/92 stocks down; 1992/93 crop to influence prices - U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service report
• How short are food supplies in former USSR? - reasons believed to be weak infrastructure, poor distribution, break up of central government, weak ruble, other disincentives - U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service report
  by William Liefert
• Shifts in farm-related employment - farm employment from 1975-88 rises, due primarily to wholesale, retail related trade increases; farming drops - U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service report
  by Jacqueline Salsgiver
• Agricultural trade - big business for U.S. & Mexico - U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service report
  by John Link
• Why the drop in winter wheat seedings? - prices driving supply coupled with the 1992 wheat acreage reduction program - U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service report
  by Ed Allen
• Recovery slow again in 1992 - U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service report
  by Jennifer L. Beattie
• 2005: A job outlook - agricultural employment expected to drop while some agriculture-related occupations are foreseen as growing; prediction rendered on economic growth; service jobs anticipated as increasing the fastest; includes related article - U.S.
  by Karen S. Hamrick
• Specialty crops overview - U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service report
• Rice industry looking homeward for growth - domestic use surpasses exports; includes related article - U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service report
  by Nathan Childs
• Farm lenders in stronger position - agricultural lenders in improved financial condition in 1991; gains seen for 1992 - U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service report
  by Jerome M. Stam
• Civil war & food crisis in the Horn of Africa - Sudan, Ethiopia, and Somalia; includes related article - U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service report
  by Brian D' Silva