Historical monthly farm/agricultural data 1950 to the present

Question

I would like to find machine readable monthly data going back to at least 1950 relating to farming and agriculture. Of particular interest are

commodity prices for core commodities: corn, wheat, beef ...
aggregate commodity price indexes
production levels
measures of "value created" something like GDP for agriculture
farm foreclosures

I am most interested in numbers that a broad range of people actually pay attention to.

@NicolasRaoul either US and/or the whole world. Farm foreclosures mainly make sense for US. — Daniel Mahler, Nov 26 '14 at 10:52
@DeerHunter Had not heard of it until now :) Thanks! Glad I asked. — Daniel Mahler, Nov 30 '14 at 06:20
Daniel, if not a secret, what kind of research is it? I'm currently trying to look into relations between commodity prices and farm bankruptcies. — Anton Tarasenko, Nov 30 '14 at 22:01

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 19 '22 at 07:26

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The "FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS - Statistics Division" (link) provides historical data for commodity prices and agricultural production.

You can download for a single country or for all countries. Some data sets go back to at least the 1960s. You'll have to investigate which data sets may be best suited to your purpose.

Data formats are typically zipped CSV.

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Historical monthly farm/agricultural data 1950 to the present

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