Farmers to Report Direct Sales in Revived USDA Survey
Published Date: 1/30/2025
Notice
Summary
The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) wants to bring back a survey that collects info from farmers about how they sell food directly to buyers. This helps understand farm operations better and share useful results. Farmers and food sellers should get ready, as this could affect how data is gathered and shared soon, with no extra costs mentioned.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
Reinstated Survey of Direct Sales
If you are a farm producer who sells food directly to consumers or to retailers, the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) intends to reinstate a survey that will ask about how you produce and market that food. The survey is being collected to gather data about direct-from-farm production and marketing and may be used in reports.
Whole-Farm Data for Classification and Reports
NASS will also collect some whole-farm data to classify and group operations so it can summarize and publish results about farm operations. If you operate a farm, information about your whole operation may be used to place your farm into groups for those published summaries.
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