ASB Notice

NASS Modifies Agriculture Prices Program

Issued March 11, 2015 by the Agricultural Statistics Board of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service. For more information, contact Tony Dorn at tony.dorn@nass.usda.gov or (202) 720-6146

The annual March survey prices paid data will no longer be published. These data include prices paid and value of hatchery production for poultry, and prices paid for fuels, feed, seeds, fertilizer, machinery, and chemicals. These prices were published each year in the April Agricultural Prices report. Monthly Prices Paid Indexes for farm input categories will continue to be published each month.

For more information about the NASS Price Program, visit: http://www.nass.usda.gov/Surveys/Guide_to_NASS_Surveys/Prices/

Agricultural farm input price data for 2014 and prior years are available at www.nass.usda.gov.

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