2022 Census of Agriculture | Your Voice. Your Future. Your Opportunity. United States Department of Agriculture | National Agricultural Statistics Service
Presented by: Curt Stock, Nevada State Statistician | USDA NASS - Pacific Region | nass.usda.gov/AgCensus
Who is the National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS)? • U.S. Department of Agriculture agency that provides timely, accurate, and useful data in service to agriculture. Data is collected from farmers and ranchers. Individual reports are confidential. Reports are combined and published at the National, Region, State, and County level.
What Does NASS Do? • Tell your story. • Administer USDA’s Statistical Estimating Program Farms Crops Livestock Economic Environmental • Produce over 400 National Reports per year • Conduct the 5 year Census of Agriculture
Farm Defined Any place from which at least $1,000 of agricultural products were produced and sold, or normally would have been sold, during the year.
January Cattle Report • Conducted in all states. • Provides inventory data that describes the nation’s cattle herd. • Estimates # of breeding animals for beef, milk production, as well as heifers held for herd replacement. • Estimates of cattle & calves raised for meat production and # of calves born
Dates to Remember
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BE COUNTED! THERE’S STRENGTH IN NUMBERS! Learn more at: www.nass.usda.gov/go/nacs
Your Voice
• November 21, 2022: Census mail out • February 6, 2023: Census deadline • February 22, 2024: Census data available
Contact Info: Curt Stock | Curt.Stock@usda.gov (916) 396 5867 www.nass.usda.gov/nv www.nass.usda.gov www.nass.usda.gov/AgCensus 40 FEBRUARY 2022
The Progressive Rancher
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