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Bruce Eklund, State Statistician New Jersey Field Office

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  • NASS Reports

Over 400 National reports published annually Over 9,000 State-level reports annually

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10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000 30,000 1950 1953 1956 1959 1962 1965 1968 1971 1974 1977 1980 1983 1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010 2013

New Jersey Number of Farms, 1950 to 2015

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1950 1952 1954 1956 1958 1960 1962 1964 1966 1968 1970 1972 1974 1976 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014

New Jersey Land in Farms, 1950 to 2015

(I,000 acres)

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  • What Does NASS Do?
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George Washington himself conducted first Ag. Survey Purposed National Board of Agriculture 1839 Comm. of Patents - $1,000 seeds, Research, Ag Stats 1840 Census of Agriculture Abe Lincoln created ‘the people’s department’ Division of Statistics First crop report 1863 Crop Reporting Board (now called the Agricultural Statistics Board) 1905

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Land Values

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Cash Rents

  • Cropland , Irrigated, non irrigated, pastureland
  • Quick Stats
  • State estimates the first week of August
  • County estimates the second week of September
  • Biannually

2015: US $144/acre NJ $67/acre

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Other 2012 Census of Agriculture Products Other 2012 Census of Agriculture Products Other 2012 Census of Agriculture Products Other 2012 Census of Agriculture Products

  • Desktop Data Query Tool
  • Agricultural Atlas
  • Ag Census Web Maps
  • Ag Census Highlights
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Other 2012 Census of Agriculture Products Other 2012 Census of Agriculture Products Other 2012 Census of Agriculture Products Other 2012 Census of Agriculture Products

  • continued

continued continued continued

  • American Indian Reservations
  • Watersheds
  • Typology
  • Special Organics Tabulation
  • Years on Present Farm of Principal Operator
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2012 Census of 2012 Census of 2012 Census of 2012 Census of Agriculture Follow Agriculture Follow Agriculture Follow Agriculture Follow on Surveys

  • n Surveys
  • n Surveys
  • n Surveys
  • 2013 Census of Aquaculture
  • 2013 Farm and Ranch Irrigation Survey
  • 2014 Census of Horticulture Specialties
  • 2014 Organic Production Survey
  • 2014 Tenure, Ownership and Transition of

Agriculture Land

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  • Data Collection
  • Producers
  • Objective measurement
  • Remote sensing
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  • Producers

Voluntarily Reporting for most reports

Mail, Telephone, Personal Interviews, Internet

Mandatory Reporting

Cold Storage plants with Dairy Products Census of Agriculture

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  • Remote sensing
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  • New Jersey

Cropland Layer

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  • High Profile Uses of NASS Data

U.S. principle economic indicators Farm Bill counter-cyclical payments Disaster payment determination Group Risk policy payments and premiums Livestock compensation program EPA risk analysis in re- registration of chemicals Levels the playing field for commodity markets

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  • Other Uses of NASS Data

Farm business plans Local lenders Grants Policy issues Local, State, Federal, International

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  • Access reports at www.nass.usda.gov
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Smattering of uses

  • Level the playing field
  • Importance of Agriculture
  • Local information – no moderation in appetite
  • Conservation on natural resources
  • Pesticide use
  • Policy impact on farms and rural America
  • Trends
  • Administer farm programs
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  • Quick Stats - Download historic data for most commodities
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  • www.agcensus.usda.gov
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Missing data

  • Item imputation
  • Missing Records
  • Must Cases

How do we know what we do not know?

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  • Locations

HQ in Washington, DC National Operations Center in Olivette, MO 12 Regional Field Offices

Harrisburg, PA Des Moines, IA Little Rock, AK Louisville, KY Sacramento, CA East Lansing, MI Denver, CO Lincoln, NE Athens, GA Olivette, MO

  • 33 other Field Offices
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Need Help?

www.nass.usda.gov www.nass.usda.gov/nj Bruce Eklund Bruce.eklund@nass.usda.gov 503.308.0404