Your Voice, Your Future, Your Opportunity
From USDA
The USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) conducts the Census of Agriculture just once every five years, and it’s that time again. The ag census remains the only source of comprehensive agriculture data for every U.S farm, ranch, and person who operates them in every state and county in the nation. The ag census includes even the smallest plots and operations, rural or urban. As long as $1,000 or more of agricultural products were produced and sold, or normally would have been sold, in the census year, that is considered a farm to be counted.
The millions of data points produced by the Census of Agriculture are used by decision makers at federal and local levels, agribusinesses, researchers, trade associations, and many others who serve producers and rural communities through the creation and funding of agricultural programs and services – decisions that directly impact ag producers and shape the future of the industry.
USDA NASS will mail the 2022 Census of Agriculture to more than three million U.S. producers with the response deadline of February 6, 2023. The information that you share in the Census of Agriculture is represented in this widely used and influential data.
The new ag census data will be available Spring/Summer 2024 in aggregate form only to ensure that no individual operation or producer can be identified. The data will be available in electronic formats for the nation as well as all states, counties, and Puerto Rico. Ag census data collection for the other U.S. territories will commence in 2024.
For more information and regular updates about the ag census, please visit www.nass.usda.gov/AgCensus