USDANEWS VOLUME 58 NO. 9 — DECEMBER 1999
Ron Bosecker was selected as the administrator of the National Agricultural Statistics Service. He succeeded Donald Bay, who served in that position from January 1995 until he retired in December 1999 following over 42 years of service with NASS.
From April 1999 until his selection in December Bosecker served as NASS’s acting deputy administrator for field operations. He was director of the agency’s Research Division from 1992-99. From 1985-92 he served first as chief of NASS’s Methods Branch and then as chief of its Survey Sampling Branch. He was the deputy state statistician in NASS’s California State Statistical Office, based in Sacramento, from 1981-85.
Bosecker worked as a mathematical statistician at NASS headquarters in Washington, DC, from 1972-81, where he served in several sections, including Remote Sensing, Nonsampling Errors, Sampling Studies, Area Frame, and Statistical Methodology. During that period he also provided technical guidance for developing or evaluating agricultural statistics programs in Tunisia, Haiti, and Bolivia. He began his full-time career with NASS in 1966 as a commodity statistician in the agency’s Ohio State Statistical Office, based in Columbus.
A native of Mt. Carmel, Ill., where he grew up on a family farm that raised hogs, cattle, corn, soybeans, wheat, and hay, Bosecker holds a B.S. degree in agricultural economics from Southern Illinois University, as well as M.S. degrees in agricultural economics and in statistics, both from Ohio State University.
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