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June 2005 — Will Americans Eat More Whole Grains?
Feature articles in the June 2005 issue include…Will 2005 Be the Year of the Whole Grain?, North America Moves Toward One Market, Obesity Policy and the Law of Unintended Consequences, and Why Hasn’t Crop Insurance Eliminated Disaster Assistance?. Other articles cover such topics as…preferential trade, China agricultural policy, fruit and vegetable trade, food product introductions, food stamp participation, biotech patent ownership, agricultural productivity, farm structure, retirement destination counties, low education counties, and agricultural history. Also includes selected statistics on agriculture and trade, diet and health, natural resources, and rural America.
Up Front
 New "growing" pains?
Feature Articles
Will 2005 Be the Year of the Whole Grains?
Why Hasn't Crop Insurance Eliminated Disaster Assistance?
Obesity Policy and the Law of Unintended Consequences
North America Moves Toward One Market
Findings
Markets and Trade
U.S. Fruit and Vegetable Imports Outpace Exports
Future of Preferential Trade Programs Concerns Developing Countries
China’s New Farm Policies Have Modest Impact
Diet and Health
Companies Continue To Offer New Foods Targeted to Children
After Leaving Welfare Food Stamps or Not!
Resources and Environment
Ag Productivity Drives Output Growth
Production Shifting to Very Large Family Farms
Ag Biotech Patents on the Move
Rural America
Rural America as a Retirement Destination
Most Low Education Counties Are in the Nonmetro South
Gleanings
Current Activities
ERS Research on Biotech Crops Informs Policies Abroad
Diverse Labor Force Attracts New Food Processing Plants
Recent Meetings
Rapid Spread of Supermarkets Changing the Pacific Rim Food System
Policy and Competition in a Changing Global Food Industry
New Releases
Many Forces Reshaping Global Textile and Cotton Markets
A Redesigned Data Portal
Rural America’s Children
North American Agricultural Policies Compared
China’s Agricultural Imports Rising
Agricultural Trade and the Environment
Commuting Codes Updated
Commodity Markets and Trade
Data Feature
Milestones in U.S. Farming and Farm Policy
Indicators
Population Interaction Zones for Agriculture
Average farm size grows most rapidly in Mountain States
Farm population as a share of total U.S. population
Profiles
HELIOS Awards -- 2005
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