USDA Using Test To Prepare For Census Of Agriculture

Farmers, the USDA may invite you to take a test, a content test to help the Department prepare for the online portion of the 2022 Census Agriculture. 

"This test that's coming up is a critical part of our preparation for and once every five-year census," said Kathy Ott with NASS. "This is going to provide us an opportunity to test that online version of the questionnaire before it gets used in our real census."

The census, she noted, is scheduled for release this coming November, but the online content test begins in January and runs through spring.  

"We're hoping by having this test conducted now, that we'll be able to identify any problems or issues with that online questionnaire with this smaller group of producers so they can be addressed before the census is sent out."

About 15,000 producers will receive the invitation to participate in the online content test.

And that online questionnaire will be found on a new responding portal, which is designed to improve the reporting experience for the 2022 Census of Ag.

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