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    • Commodity Costs and Returns

    Metadata Updated: April 21, 2025

    Cost and return estimates are reported for the United States and major production regions for corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, grain sorghum, rice, peanuts, oats, barley, milk, hogs, and cow-calf. The history of commodity cost and return estimates for the U.S. and regions is divided into three categories: current, recent, and historical estimates. Cost of Production Forecasts are also available for major U.S. field crops.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

    Downloads & Resources

    References

    http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/commodity-costs-and-returns/documentation.aspx

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from USDA JSON

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025
    Publisher Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture
    Maintainer
    Identifier USDA-ERS-26111
    Data First Published 2019-12-17
    Data Last Modified 2020-06-22
    Category Tag 16E15F51 D96E 4051 9124 75665Abdc6Ff "Food Resilience","Food Production"
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y
    Bureau Code 005:13
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Dictionary http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/commodity-costs-and-returns/documentation.aspx#glossary
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    Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
    Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
    Old Spatial United States
    Program Code 005:041
    Related Documents http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/commodity-costs-and-returns/documentation.aspx
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 0b47e7764655e302b4d5f869ffb065270bbad731e29cce610e7f1731325bdf35
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":-124.733253,24.544245,-124.733253,49.388611,-66.954811,49.388611,-66.954811,24.544245,-124.733253,24.544245}
    Temporal 2011-01-01/2012-01-01

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