Joe Parsons

According to data released Tuesday, 95% of all U.S. farms are considered family farms. That comes out to 1.9 million farms.

NASS and NRCS are reaching out to farmers and ranchers nationwide to gather information about the conservation practices they use. Nearly 23,000 operators nationwide will receive the 2025 Conservation Effects Assessment Project survey.

Starting at the end of the month, NASS will mail the Grape Inquiry to roughly 2,000 growers nationwide.

NASS will conduct its annual Mushroom Inquiry to document the past growing year.  Mushroom growers nationwide will be contacted about growing areas, production, and value of sales for the 2024-2025 season as well as growing intentions for the coming year.   “The ...

Over the next several weeks, NASS will conduct its June Agricultural Survey.  The agency said they will contact nearly 92,000 producers across the nation to determine crop acreage and stock levels as of June 1st.     “The June Agricultural Survey is one of the most important and well-known surveys NASS conducts,” said NASS Administrator Joe Parsons. “When producers respond to the surv...

According to the latest census numbers, total sales of aquaculture products in 2023 hit $1.9 billion, an increase of 26% from 2018.  NASS says in 2023, there were 3,453 aquaculture farms with sales in the United States, up 18% during that same time period.  Five st...

According to the 2023 Irrigation and Water Management Survey, which was released Thursday, there were 212,714 farms with 53.1 million irrigated acres, which included 81 million acre-feet of water applied in the United States.  In 2018, the irrigation survey results showed that there were 231,474 farms with 55.9 million...

NASS, in partnership with NRCS, will reach out to farmers, ranchers, and agricultural landowners to gather in-depth information about their conservation practices.  Almost 12,000 operators nationwide have received the 2024 Conservation Effects Assessment Project Survey.     ...

NASS has launched a collection of interactive maps to allow data users to access key Census of Agriculture information. The newly redesigned Ag Census Web Maps application offers the public access to maps and accompanying data to help visualize, download and analyze Census of Agriculture data down to the county level...

From past surveys of farmers, we know what conservation practices growers are using and the effects of those practices on the environment, "but the next logical step is to understand why producers are adopting or not adopting conservation practices..."....