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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
U.S. farmers are planting fewer acres with corn and soybeans this year, while sowing more wheat, cotton and sorghum, USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service said in an annual report.
Florida citrus growers should not expect to receive a silver bullet in their fight against citrus greening, a new National Academy of Sciences report has concluded.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2017 - USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) needs an array of updated and alternative tools and new statistical models to achieve 21st century bean counting on American farms and ranches, says a coast-to-coast team of statistical experts, economists and others who released their findings this week in a National Academy of Sciences report.
WASHINGTON, July 12, 2017 – A USDA report on Wednesday boosted corn and soybean harvest projections while cutting anticipated returns for the nation’s wheat crop.
WASHINGTON, June 30, 2017 – U.S. farmers are planting a record 89.5 million acres with soybeans this year, up 7 percent from 2016, while corn acreage has fallen and wheat acreage is down sharply, USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service said today in a report.
WASHINGTON, May 10, 2017 – On the heels of a late snowfall devastating much of the Kansas winter wheat crop, the Department of Agriculture is projecting a 25 percent drop in U.S. production from a year ago.
WASHINGTON, April 17, 2017 – “Make sure you are counted.” That’s the message USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service is trying to get across to America’s farmers and ranchers as NASS prepares for the 2017 Census of Agriculture. Conducted every five years, the Census aims to get a complete count of all U.S. farms and ranches and those who operate them.
