The Agricultural Outlook has been prepared as a joint report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations- The report provides a ten year forward looking, assessment of trends and prospects in the major temperate-zone agricultural commodity markets of cereals, oilseeds, sugar, meat, fish and dairy products- It is published annually, in the middle of the second quarter, as part of a continuing effort to promote informed discussion of emerging market and policy issues- The data used to develop the projections underlying the assessment are those available as of January 2012
