- Informing Decisions
- In 50 years of excellence, ERS has made noteworthy contributions to food, rural, and agricultural debate in the United States. ERS research has helped policymakers and others make difficult decisions that change the lives of Americans and others around the globe.
- Expanding Our Reach
- We use technology to communicate and engage customers around the world in new and innovative ways, to help them find and use our data and information, and to increase knowledge-sharing.
- Relevant Research
- We conduct relevant, objective, highly reputable economic research and policy analyses that inform program and policy decisions throughout the Federal government. Our mission is to anticipate food, agricultural, agri-environmental, and rural development issues and to conduct sound, peer-reviewed economic research.
- Forecasts That Matter
- We are the primary source of statistical indicators that, among other things, gauge the health of the farm sector (including farm income estimates and projections), assess the current and expected performance of the agricultural sector (including trade), and provide measures of food insecurity here and abroad.
