The Agriculture Department’s National Agricultural Statistics Service has decided to reinstate a series of reports it had said it could no longer produce. Read More...

The National Agricultural Statistics Service has decided to eliminate or cut back on a long list of reports it issues due to budget constraints, while users of those reports and others said that more information, not less, is needed in a period of tight global food stocks.
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With the end of earmarks, the Agriculture Department may need to ask Congress for the kind of authority that the National Science Foundation has to initiate new research facilities on its own, Agriculture Undersecretary for Research, Education and Economics Catherine Woteki said in a wide-ranging interview with The Hagstrom Report. Read More...

Following a crop report today that showed an unexpectedly high number of acres planted to corn despite wet weather problems, the Agriculture Department’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) announced that it will collect updated information on 2011 acres planted to corn, soybeans, durum and other spring wheat in four states in July. Read More...

USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service announced today it has indefinitely postponed the renewal of the Census of Aquaculture and the Tenure, Ownership and Transition of Agricultural Land Survey in order to meet its budget. Read More...