Basic Statistics

• Key Indicators / Economics Research Service, USDA
• Minnesota State Fact Sheet / Economics Research Service, USDA
• Statistical Abstract - Agriculture Section / United States Bureau of the Census

Online Publications

• Agriculture Fact Book / United States Department of Agriculture
• Agriculture Outlook / United States Department of Agriculture - Economic Research Service
• Agricultural Statistics / United States Department of Agriculture - National Agriculture Statistics Service
  This publication is an annual compendium of agriculture statistics.

Databases

• 2002 Census of Agriculture / U.S. Department of Agriculture. National Agricultural Statistics Service.
• Foreign Agricultural Trade Of The United States (FATUS) / U. S. Department of Agriculture - Economic Research Service
  Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States (FATUS) is a database on U.S. agricultural exports and imports that includes a feature allowing users to generate tables showing imports and exports by commodity and country.
• Eurostat
  The Eurostat website contains a mix of statistical information in PDF pages, pre-defined tables and interactive databases. The coverage varies by topic, but some data goes back at least to 1929. All content is freely available. There is a guide to Eurostat at http://www.lib.umn.edu/libdata/page.phtml?page_id=1686.
  
• FAOSTAT / Food and Agriculture Organization
  FAOSTAT, from the Food and Agriculture Organization, contains over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics in the following areas: Production, Trade, Food Balance Sheets, Fertilizer and Pesticides, Land Use and Irrigation, Forest Products, Fishery Products, Population, Agricultural Machinery and Food Aid Shipments from 1961-.
  
• Quick Stats: Agricultural Statistics Data Base / U.S. Department of Agriculture. National Agricultural Statistics Service.
  U.S., State, and County level agricultural statistics for many commodities and data series with querying ability by commodity, state(s) and year(s) from 1866-. Results can be downloaded as Microsoft Excel-compatible comma-separated value (*.csv) files.