agricultural_and_food_rd_expenditures

Get ERS agricultural and food research and development (R&D) expenditures - public and private U.S. R&D spending in current and constant dollars with the R&D price index, pivoted to a wide layout with the R&D series as columns and years as rows.

Examples

from openbb import obb
obb.usda.agricultural_and_food_rd_expenditures(provider='usda')
# Get nominal (current-dollar) R&D expenditures since 2000.
obb.usda.agricultural_and_food_rd_expenditures(measure='nominal', start_year=2000, provider='usda')

Parameters

• standard
• usda

measure: str | None
Default: real
Measure to retrieve, selecting which values fill the R&D series columns. 'real' is inflation-adjusted constant 2022 U.S. dollars; 'nominal' is current U.S. dollars. Both are in millions. The R&D price index column is the same under either measure.

start_year: int | None
Start year for filtering the data, compared against the observation year. If None, returns from 1970.

end_year: int | None
End year for filtering the data, compared against the observation year. If None, returns up to the most recent year.

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Returns

results: AgriculturalAndFoodRdExpenditures

Serializable results.

provider: str | None

Provider name.

warnings: Optional[list[Warning_]]

List of warnings.

chart: Optional[Chart]

Chart object.

extra: dict[str, Any]

Extra info.

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Data

• standard
• usda

year: int
Year of the observation.

public_total: float | None
Total public agricultural and food R&D expenditures, in millions of dollars under the selected measure.

public_usda_intramural: float | None
Public agricultural and food R&D performed by USDA intramural agencies, in millions of dollars under the selected measure.

public_state_universities: float | None
Public agricultural and food R&D performed by State universities and cooperating institutions, in millions of dollars under the selected measure.

private_input_industries: float | None
Private agriculture input industries R&D, in millions of dollars under the selected measure. Discontinued after 2014.

private_food_industry: float | None
Private food industry R&D, in millions of dollars under the selected measure.

rd_price_index: float | None
R&D price index (2022 = 100) used to deflate the nominal series, the same under either measure.