Agricultural Baseline Database
Machine readable comma-separated value (.csv) data file notes.
Updated 2/13/26   

Economic Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture


Suggested citation: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of the Chief Economist, World Agricultural 
	Outlook Board.  Data prepared by the Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee.    

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Questions concerning the development, use, or interpretation of these
data should be addressed to:

 Erik Dohlman 
 USDA/ERS/MTED 
          

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This file is available on December 5, 2025. 

USDA Agricultural Projection tables contain data covering 1 year of 
history (2024), the current year, and projections for the next 10 years through 2035 of 
the supply and use of selected U.S. crop and animal commodities.  

 - Variable names are contained in the first row: 
	Attribute......(Supply and use category variable name) (String)
	Commodity......(Crop or Livestock/Dairy commodity) (String) 
	Commoditytype..(One of two categories: Crop or 
			Livestock/Dairy) (String)
	Units..........(Measurement unit) (String)
	Year type......(Either marketing year or calendar year) (String)
	Year...........(Year of measurement within the current projection 
			year) (String)
	Value..........(Data value) (Double) 

 - Marketing years differ by commodity.  
	Corn....................September 1 
	Sorghum.................September 1
	Barley..................June 1
	Oats....................June 1
	Wheat...................June 1
	Soybeans................September 1
	Soybean oil.............October 1
	Soybean meal............October 1
	Rice....................August 1
	Rice, California........October 1
	Upland cotton...........August 1

 - Note that totals in the tables may not add due to rounding. Some of the attribute values in this .csv file are also rounded
	from the values available in the source .xlsx files. 

 - Biofuel in the Soybean oil Supply and Use (S&U) table reflects biofuel-as reported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Energy
	Information Administration.

 - Net returns for upland cotton include revenue from cottonseed.

 - Cwt = hundredweight (100 pounds).

 - The broiler-feed price based on 58 percent corn price and 42 percent 
	soybean price-as used by USDA, National Agricultural Statistics
	Service.

 - The turkey feed price is based on 51 percent corn price, 28 percent soybean
	price, and 21 percent wheat price-as used by USDA, National
	Agricultural Statistics Service.

 - The egg feed price based on 75 percent corn price and 25 percent soybean
	price-as used by USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service.


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Sources:  This data combines information from USDA's National 
Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA's World Agricultural Supply and
Demand Estimates (WASDE) reports, and projections made by USDA's
Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee.

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The .csv file contains information from the following tables that are found in the
USDA Agricultural Projections to 2035/36 Report:   


Table 6.	U.S. corn long-term projections
Table 7.	U.S. sorghum long-term projections
Table 8.	U.S. barley long-term projections
Table 9.	U.S. oats long-term projections
Table 10.	U.S. wheat long-term projections
Table 11.	U.S. soybeans and products, long-term projections
Table 12.	U.S. rice long-term projections, total rice, rough basis
Table 13.	U.S. rice long-term projections, long-grain rice, rough basis
Table 14.	U.S. rice long-term projections, medium- and short-grain rice, rough basis
Table 15.	U.S. upland cotton long-term projections
Table 18.	Per capita meat disappearance, retail weight
Table 19.	Beef long-term projections
Table 20.	Pork long-term projections
Table 21.	Young chicken long-term projections
Table 22.	Turkey long-term projections
Table 23.	Egg long-term projections
Table 24.	Dairy long-term projections


