USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will end data collection for the 2022 Census of Agriculture on May 31. Producers who have not yet returned their completed questionnaires have just one week left to respond. Federal law requires everyone who received the ag census to complete and return it. Recipients can respond online at agcounts.usda.gov or by mail.
NASS Administrator Hubert Hamer says, “Not being represented in these widely used data means risking being underserved.”
USDA NASS is reminding ag census recipients that if they produced and sold $1,000 or more of agricultural product in 2022, or normally would have produced and sold that much, they meet USDA’s definition of a farm. However, landowners who lease land to producers, those solely involved in conservation programs, and even those who may not have farmed in 2022 are still required to respond.
USDA will release the results in 2024. To learn more about the Census of Agriculture, visit nass.usda.gov/AgCensus.
(From the National Association of Farm Broadcasters)