NASS Announces Changes to its Statistical Programs

Issued June 2, 2011 by the Agricultural Statistics Board of the U.S. Department
of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service. For more information 
contact Sue duPont at (202) 690-8122.

USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) has indefinitely 
postponed the renewal of the Census of Aquaculture and the Tenure, Ownership 
and Transition of Agricultural Land Survey in order to meet its budget.  NASS 
previously planned to conduct these surveys to gather additional data following 
the 2007 Census of Agriculture.

NASS also will suspend its July Sheep and Goats Inventory survey. The survey is 
part of a biannual program with the results published annually in January and 
July. Going forward, NASS will conduct only the January edition of the survey.

A notice in the Federal Register, providing detailed information about the program 
suspension, will soon be available. 

NASS would like to thank all of the participants in these programs for their 
outstanding contributions to U.S. agricultural statistics reporting.