http://www.nass.usda.gov/ National Agricultural Statistics Service provides timely, accurate, and useful statistics in service to U. S. agriculture. en-us 60 http://www.nass.usda.gov/rss/logo.gif http://www.nass.usda.gov nass@nass.usda.gov http://www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/2009/06_30_2009.asp Total U.S. crop area is down 1.2 percent from last year, but soybean acres are up 2.3 percent and corn acres are up 1.2 percent according to the Acreage report released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). http://www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/Notices/06_12_2009.asp The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will release the 2007 Census of Agriculture American Indian Reservations publication on June 19 at 3 p.m. EDT. http://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Newsroom/2009/06_19_2009.asp The 2007 Census of Agriculture marks the first time NASS has attempted to collect census forms from individual farm and ranch operators on American Indian reservations in every state. http://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Newsroom/2009/05_29_2009.asp For the first time, results from the Census of Agriculture have been published at the watershed level by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). http://www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/Notices/05_20_2009.asp The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will release results of the 2007 Census of Agriculture summarized by watershed on May 29 at 3:00 p.m. EDT. This will mark the first time that census data will be available at the watershed level. http://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Newsroom/2009/05_08_2009.asp Information from the 2007 Census of Agriculture is now available at the congressional district level in online profiles published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). http://www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/2009/03_31_2009.asp The U.S. Department of Agriculture expects that the total area planted to corn and soybeans nationwide will hold steady in 2009 but that the area planted to principal crops will decline by nearly 7.8 million acres, according to the Prospective Plantings report released today by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). http://www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/2009/01_21_2009.asp A record number of farmers invested in their future by participating in the 2007 Census of Agriculture. They will soon see a return on that investment when Census results are released Feb. 4 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). http://www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/2009/01_12_2009.asp An economic downturn, floods in the Midwest, hurricanes in the South and drought-like conditions in various areas of the United States made 2008 one of the most volatile years in history for the agriculture industry. In spite of all the challenges U.S. farmers produced an abundant corn and soybean crop, according to the 2008 Crop Production Summary released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture'ss National Agricultural Statistics Service. http://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Newsroom/2008/12_18_2008.asp Water is the source of life and the U.S. agricultural industry depends upon this precious resource to meet the world's growing need for food, feed, fiber and fuel. U.S. agricultural producers will soon have the opportunity to speak out about their water use when the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) conducts the Farm and Ranch Irrigation Survey.