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The Importance of Farm Broadcasting in Reaching America's 3.2 Million Farmers

November 12, 2014 Joe Prusacki, NASS National Operations Division Director

Growing up on a small crop and hog farm in Perry County, Illinois, I have memories as a child listening to the radio with my father or uncle to hear the latest agriculture news. As farmers, they relied on and trusted receiving weather, farm, and market updates from the local radio station, WDQN...

Trade

Missouri Farmers Bring Agriculture to Local Population

November 07, 2014 Bob Garino, Missouri State Statistician, National Agricultural Statistics Service

The Census of Agriculture is the most complete account of U.S. farms and ranches and the people who operate them. Every Thursday USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service will highlight new Census data and the power of the information to shape the future of American agriculture. Thanks to the...

Conservation

Illinois Farmers Have Plenty to Boast About

October 30, 2014 Mark Schleusener, Illinois State Statistician, National Agricultural Statistics Service

Conservation

Mapping U.S. Agriculture

October 28, 2014 Lee Ebinger, Cartographer, National Agricultural Statistics Service

Agricultural data are valuable for analysis, and thanks to the Census of Agriculture and other surveys, NASS has plenty of data available. As a cartographer, however, I obviously prefer to present the data in map form. A map gives anyone a chance to visualize data for multiple geographic areas as a...

Conservation

Arkansas Farmers Combine Tradition with Stewardship

October 23, 2014 Becky Cross, Delta Region Director, National Agricultural Statistics Service

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Celebrating Old North State Agriculture

October 16, 2014 Dee Webb, North Carolina State Statistician, National Agricultural Statistics Service

Conservation

Texas Agriculture, Bigger in More Ways Than You Might Know

October 09, 2014 Doug Rundle, Southern Plains Regional Director, National Agricultural Statistics Service

Conservation

Helping the American Dairy Industry Thrive

October 08, 2014 Butch Speth, National Supervisor of Dairy Market News, USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service

Last week, the 2014 World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin drew more than 70,000 dairy farmers, processors and other stakeholders from across the country and around the globe. Attendees explored exhibits featuring elite dairy cattle, the latest in dairy research, the newest farm equipment and...

Food and Nutrition

Wisconsin Lives Up to its Dairyland Name

October 02, 2014 Greg Bussler, Wisconsin State Statistician, National Agricultural Statistics Service

Conservation

Agriculture on the Rise in New Hampshire

September 25, 2014 Gary Keough, New England Statistician, National Agricultural Statistics Service

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