Lance Honig

What's the size of the U.S. horticultural industry? And how has it changed over the past five years? The answers to that and other related questions are now available. The USDA is just out with its 2019 Census of Horticultural Specialties, which Lance Hoenig with the Department's Statistic Service calls the most comprehensive look at the horticulture industry ...

Last week's USDA Grain Stocks Report had a few surprises, and according to NASS' Lance Hoenig, the biggest surprise was came from the September 1st soybean stocks estimate: 523 million bushels, which was down 42.4% year over year. And despite stocks being the fourth largest ever, ths USDA estimate was  below almost all of the guesses by the trade analysts.  M ...

According to NASS, we can expect to have less tart cherries this season. "The tart cherry crop 197 million pounds expected to be produced this year and that's down 24.8% from what was produced last year," said NASS' Lance Hoenig. He added the reduced tart cherry production nationwide, stems from the decrease in the crop in Michigan, the largest tart cherry producing state ... Read Mor

It's summer, and one of the best snacks out there, whether its for your holiday weekend, or just because, is sweet cherries.  And while this year's crop is below what we saw this time last year, NASS' Lance Honig is there will will be enough cherries to go around. "Produ ...

On March 31st, USDA will release the results of its survey of producers planting intentions.  Surveys are being mailed to about 80,000 producers as we speak and by the middle of the week they should be showing up in mailboxes.   The USDA's Lance Honig said if you get one of these perspective plating surveys please answer it within a week or so.  He added each one...

Coming up this Friday, USDA's much awaited report on planted acreage, for which 100,000 farmers or so were surveyed earlier this month. In addition to the acreage numbers, USDA will also focus on stocks.  Lance Honig with the USDA's AG Statistic's Service said farmers were not just asked about acreage, but also about their stocks of grain on farm.  ...

USDA'S 2018 wrap up of the wheat crop shows winter wheat producers achieving the third highest yield ever, "but we had record low harvested acreage," Lance Honig with USDA's statistics service.  He added it's the fifth straight year of declines in winter wheat acreage.  ...

USDA's next crop reports will be released September 12th, and analysts are wondering whether they'll bring those unexpectedly high August projections down.  There's a lot of speculation, but one thing is certain: those crops are a month further along in their development, increasing the chance of an accurate forecast.  ...

USDA's weekly crop progress reports continue to show many crops developing well ahead of the 5-year averages, especially corn and soybeans.  Right now, USDA has trained, crop-evaluation experts surveying thousands of fields, with the data to be entered into the USDA's first survey-based crop production forecast of the season.  ...