World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates [SEP] publisher
World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates
The World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) is a monthly report published by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) providing comprehensive forecast of supply and demand for major crops (global and United States) and livestock (U.S. only). The report provides an analysis of the fundamental condition of the agricultural commodity markets for the use of farmers, governments and other market participants.
The WASDE report is compiled using information from a number of statistical reports produced by the USDA and
USDA Division of Statistics published "Production and distribution of the principal agricultural products of the world", a miscellaneous report representing several months of work in compiling the first overview of production of major crops around the world. Subsequent such reports appeared irregularly, and evolved by the 1960s into commodity-oriented circulars published at regular intervals by USDA agencies. 
The first direct predecessor of the WASDE report was released on September 17, 1973, as the "Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates". It was originally focused on supply, demand