For 100 years, AMS has provided free, unbiased price and sales information to assist in the marketing and distribution of farm commodities. Each year, Market News issues thousands of reports providing the industry with key wholesale, retail, and shipping data. The reports give farmers, producers, and other agricultural businesses the information they need to evaluate market conditions, identify trends, make purchasing decisions, monitor price patterns, evaluate transportation equipment needs, and accurately assess movement.

The information captures data for cotton, fruits, vegetables and specialty crops, livestock, meats, poultry, eggs, grain and hay, milk and dairy, and tobacco.