Wednesday, April 10, 2019

2017 Census of Agriculture to be released at noon ET Thur.

The Department of Agriculture will release the 2017 Census of Agriculture Thursday, April 11, at noon ET. It includes a wealth of granular data on topics such as the number of farms, land in farms, value of production, demographics and more at national, state and county levels.

This census will include new information on military service, food marketing practices, and on-farm decision-making.

The census report and related publications, including searchable data query interfaces, will be available on the National Agricultural Statistics Service website. The website has three videos up now explaining why the ag census is important, what's new in this one, and how to find data. NASS will host a Twitter chat Friday, April 12 at 1 p.m. ET to address questions about the census. You can find the chat by following @usda_nass and searching for the hashtag #statchat.

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