Quarterly totals of refrigerated truck load volumes (tonnage) from U.S. origin shipping areas and cross-border movements from Mexico and Canada for individual fruit and vegetable varieties.

Note: Entries marked zero tons were registered commodity movements, but the sum of all shipment volumes totaled less than 1 ton.

Regional quarterly average refrigerated truck rates ($/mile) by mileage category: a) local movements–500 miles and less, b) short distance movements–between 501 and 1,500 miles, c) medium distance movements–between 1,501 and 2,500 miles, and d) long distance movements–greater than 2,500 miles. Regions represent origination points for movements.

Quarterly ocean freight rates for shipping soybeans from select Brazilian ports to Shanghai, China and Hamburg, Germany.

This dataset provides quarterly truck rates for select Brazilian soybean-export routes (designated by origin and destination).

This dataset is also used to calculate a weighted-average truck rate, which can be viewed here: https://agtransport.usda.gov/d/i4ty-m7hq. A share associated with each row is used to define the weight of a given route's freight price in the composition of the weighted freight index. This calculation is made based on the quantity of production in the route's mesoregion as that quantity relates to the total produced by all mesoregions considered in the project. In 2020, the selected mesoregions represented about 81 percent of national production, so the shares will not sum to one.