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Late-Season County Ag Production Survey Mailed
Nebraska Ag Connection - 10/20/2016

Many Nebraska producers recently received a survey to collect data that will be used to determine row crop and hay county level acreage, yield, and production estimates for 2016. The USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) mailed these surveys in mid-October to producers.

"County-level yields have a direct impact on farmers around the State. USDA's Farm Service Agency uses the data in administering producer programs such as the Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) included in the 2014 Farm Bill, and in determining disaster assistance program calculations," said Dean Groskurth, director of NASS's Northern Plains Region. "County-level data for corn, sorghum, soybeans, and sunflowers will be published in February 2017 and hay and dry edible beans in April 2017. However, NASS cannot publish a county yield unless it receives enough reports from producers in that county to make a statistically defensible estimate. So, it is very important that producers respond to this survey. In 2015, we were unable to publish several large producing counties because we lacked a sufficient number of responses."

"As required by Federal law, all responses are completely confidential," Groskurth continued. "We safeguard the privacy of all respondents, ensuring that no individual operation or producer can be identified. Individual responses are also exempt from the Freedom of Information Act."

For more information call the NASS Nebraska Field Office at 800-582-6443.


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