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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact:  Greg Lemmons
Monday, March 28, 2011

www.nass.usda.gov/ny

            

                               USDA TO SURVEY MAPLE PRODUCERS


       The U.S. Department of Agriculture will be conducting a Maple Syrup survey during April and 
May.  Representatives from USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will be surveying 
producers in ten of the nation’s largest maple producing states, including New York.
       
       This survey will gather information on number of taps, yield, production, price, and value of 
production in New York.  Results from last year’s survey established New York’s rank as 2nd in the 
nation for production of maple syrup behind Vermont.
       
       As with all NASS surveys, information provided by respondents is confidential by law. "NASS 
safeguards the privacy of all responses, ensuring that no individual operation or producer can be 
identified," said King Whetstone, Director of the New York Field Office.  The National Agricultural 
Statistics Service is even exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, so producers can be 
guaranteed that their individual data will not be released to any person or any other agency.
       
       Survey results will be published in NASS’s Crop Production Report to be released on June 9, 
2011. This and all NASS reports are available on the agency’s web site: www.nass.usda.gov. For more 
information on NASS surveys and reports, call the NASS New York Field Office at (800) 821-1276. 
  
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