Skip to main content
Skip to main content

#StatChat


NASS Builds Its Future on 150-Year Foundation of Agricultural Statistics

January 21, 2020 Hubert Hamer, NASS Administrator

USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is well known for being the gold standard for U.S. agricultural data that can help you in your work. We are proud of our reputation for providing useful, accurate data in service to U.S. agriculture for more than 150 years. When extension agents...

Research and Science

Agricultural Data Users Weigh-in on USDA Statistical Programs

October 18, 2016 Joe Parsons, Agricultural Statistics Board Chair

As I’ve learned over my years with the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), in order to make an impact, our information needs to meet the needs of the people who use the data we produce. And while we constantly try to gauge and meet their needs, it is imperative to speak to our data...

Trade Technology

Statistical Information Critical to Efficient Markets

May 24, 2016 Lance Honig, Crops Branch Chief, National Agricultural Statistics Service

Starting next week, the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will reach out to tens of thousands of farmers across the United States. Our interviewers will go door to door and make phone calls to collect the most accurate information possible about farmland in each state. In addition, we...

Conservation
Subscribe to #StatChat

AskUSDA

One central entry point for you to access information and help from USDA.