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The creation of USDA's Crop Reporting Board in 1905 (now called the Agricultural Statistics Board) was another landmark in the development of a nationwide statistical service for agriculture. A USDA reorganization in 1961 led to the creation of the Statistical Reporting Service, known today as National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). [1]
China is loading up on soybeans amid US trade war fears. China's soybean imports rose 6.5% in 2024, hedging against potential Trump trade policies. Intensifying US-China trade tensions could hit ...
Roughly one-third of U.S. government spending to insure the nation's crops since 2011 has gone to insurance companies that derive more than $1 billion in profit from the program each year ...
On October 14, 1980, the report was released for the first time as the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates and it was the first report to provide categorized estimates for the world, US, total foreign, major importers and major exporters. [8] Estimates for individual countries were first included in the report released on January 11 ...
shows a tractor plowing a crop field Worker overseeing cotton gin, ca. 1940s Agriculture is a major industry in the United States , which is a net exporter of food. [ 1 ] As of the 2017 census of agriculture , there were 2.04 million farms, covering an area of 900 million acres (1,400,000 sq mi), an average of 441 acres (178 hectares) per farm.
Mark Tuttle planted more soy and less corn on his northern Illinois farm this spring as prices for both crops hover near three-year lows and soybeans' lower production costs offered him the best ...
The US is the world's largest producer of corn. [8] According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the average U.S. yield for corn was 177 bushels per acre, up 3.3 percent over 2020 and a record high, with 16 states posting state records in output, and Iowa reporting a record of 205 bushels of corn per acre.
The US is banning all imports of cotton and tomato products originating in China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, government officials said on Wednesday, citing growing concerns over widespread ...