The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural
Service (FAS) today announced the expansion of its Production,
Supply and Distribution (PS&D) on-line database, which provides
information on agricultural commodities for the United States
and other countries.
Users will be able to create a personal PS&D user account
that will allow them to save their on-line custom queries. The
custom query and display options have been enhanced to include
commodity codes, country codes, monthly data, market-year data
and the top ten countries for a specific commodity. New reports
will be available with analytical details of agricultural
production trends. In addition, the reformatted database will
produce monthly reports beginning with July 2006 data, as well
as market year reports.
The PS&D searchable database is particularly useful for
commodity traders, agricultural exporters and importers,
economists, and producers and researchers who can use it to tap
into current and historical data on prices, production levels
and demand for agricultural products.
The database is located on the Web site at
http://www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/psdHome.aspx.
