Every five years, USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) conducts a program review following the completion of the Census of Agriculture. NASS made no changes of significance for field crops. For livestock, NASS will make changes to its survey work for the January Cattle Inventory Report, December Hogs & Pigs Report, Cattle on Feed Report and Milk Production Report, along with some others.
NASS will reduce the number of published states for the January Cattle Inventory Report from 50 states to 31 states, though it will publish all cattle and calves inventory, all cows inventory and calf crop for those 19 states. The 19 states will be Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont and West Virginia.
NASS will reduce the number of published states for December Hogs and Pigs Report from 50 states to 16 states. The 16 published states will be Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Texas. The 34 non-published states will be accounted for as “other states.”
NASS will remove Minnesota as a published state in the Cattle on Feed Report. It will be accounted for in “other states.”
For the quarterly Milk Production Report, NASS will reduce the number of published states from 50 to 33. The 17 non-published states will be Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Carolina, West Virginia and Wyoming, which will be accounted for as “other states.”
