ASB Notice

USDA-NASS Offers Direct Links to Upcoming Reports

Issued Aug. 08, 2018 by the Agricultural Statistics Board of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service. For more information contact Sue King at (202) 690-8122 or sue.king@nass.usda.gov.

Due to the recent change in Lockup policy, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is offering direct links to its Crop Production and Cotton Ginnings reports scheduled for release at 12 p.m. ET on Friday, August 10. The exact links are:

Crop Production –
  • https://release.nass.usda.gov/reports/crop0818.pdf
  • https://release.nass.usda.gov/reports/crop0818.txt
  • https://release.nass.usda.gov/reports/crop0818.zip

Cotton Ginnings –

  • https://release.nass.usda.gov/reports/ctgn3218.pdf
  • https://release.nass.usda.gov/reports/ctgn3218.txt
  • https://release.nass.usda.gov/reports/ctgn3218.zip

The reports at the links above are the primary and fastest release product available at release time. The QuickStats database, https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov, is also available for those seeking only data. QuickStats is secondary to the reports and may not be available as quickly.

NASS will use our Twitter feed (@usda_nass) for any real-time updates around noon, and for the regularly scheduled Stat Chat with Crops Branch Chief Lance Honig, at 1 p.m. ET. The schedule for all 2018 NASS reports is available at www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Calendar/reports_by_date.php.

For website security purposes and to ensure that these reports remain available to all users, USDA monitors network traffic and will block abnormal activity. For more information about the USDA website security policy, visit www.usda.gov/policies-and-links.

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