E-mail: nass-ny@nass.usda.gov
(518) 457-5570

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact:  Brent Farley
Monday, January 3, 2011

www.nass.usda.gov/ny

	
                         FOLLOW-UP CONTACTS BEGIN FOR FLORICULTURE PRODUCTION SURVEY

	 The National Agricultural Statistics Service will begin telephoning producers who have not yet 
returned their Floriculture Production questionnaire.  Producers who have not yet returned their survey are 
asked to do so as soon as possible.  Producers who do not mail in their survey and who are unable to 
be contacted by telephone will be interviewed in person.  

       The annual survey of Floriculture Production was mailed in December and January to all 
commercial producers of cut flowers, flowering and foliage plants, bedding plants, or cultivated florist 
greens in New York.  This survey provides the only detailed information about the production and sales 
of these items and the important contribution they make to the agricultural economy of New York State, 
according to King Whetstone, Director of the NASS, New York Field Office.

       To maintain accurate information for the industry, the continued cooperation of commercial 
producers is necessary.  A commercial producer is defined as one who earns $10,000 or more in gross 
annual sales.

      Any producer with questions about the survey may call Brent Farley or Bill Blackson at 1-800-821-
1276.

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