The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) publishes monthly Ending Stocks projections, providing an estimate of the end-of-marketing-year inventory of a particular commodity, which effectively summarizes its supply and demand outlook.

Consumer prices have increased substantially in recent months.

U.S. agricultural producers have been hard hit by China, Mexico, Canada and other countries who have imposed tariffs against U.S.

IFPRI's flagship report examines the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2012.