USDA NASS Names Acting Chair of USDA’s Agricultural Statistics Board

The USDA National Ag Statistics Service this week announced Joseph Parsons will serve as Acting Chair of USDA’s Agricultural Statistics Board.  At the same time, he also becomes Acting Director of the Methodology Division.

Parsons currently serves as Director of the Information Technology Division and is the agency’s Chief Information Officer.  Before that, he was Senior Research Statistician in the Research and Development Division.

He has served in a variety of leadership positions throughout the agency. The Agricultural Statistics Board prepares and issues USDA’s official national and state forecasts and estimates relating to crop production, stocks of agricultural commodities, livestock and livestock products, dairy and dairy products, poultry and poultry products, agricultural prices, economic information, agricultural wage rates, chemical usage, and other subjects.'

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