USDA ERS Fruit and Tree Nut Yearbook - 2008

Thankfully, these government reports no longer come to our office in the mail. This annual report is packed with 200 pages of data about fruit and tree nuts, and you probably will find something in the report useful to you if you grow, pack, import, export, sell or eat fruit. Find the 2008 USDA ERS Fruit and Tree Nut Yearbook here.

Here is a bit about fresh fruit consumption in 2007:

Per capita fresh fruit consumption averaged 97.5 pounds in 2007, 4 percent below the previous year (table f-36). Americans ate about the same amount of fresh noncitrus fruit between 2006 and 2007, but 16 percent less citrus due to smaller citrus crops in California, which produces most of the fresh oranges and lemons. Noncitrus fruit consumption veraged 79.5 pounds per person in 2007, the fourth highest on record. Strong demand for bananas and grapes, blueberries, cranberries, strawberries, cherries, apricots, and papayas helped offset weakened demand for fresh apples, peaches and nectarines, pears, kiwifruit, plums/prunes, pineapples, and avocados. Mango consumption remained unchanged from 2006 at 2.10 pounds per person, tying for the record high.