USDA - National Agricultural Statistics Service Audio Broadcasts
Summary: Discussion of the latest USDA agricultural production reports and news with NASS officials who collect and disseminate the statistics. The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) conducts hundreds of surveys each year and issues nearly 500 national reports annually.
- Visit Website
- RSS
- Artist: USDA-NASS
- Copyright: © USDA-NASS 2007
Podcasts:
Joe Prusacki, chief of the NASS Crops Branch, discusses the forecasts published in the May Crop Production report. Due to the ongoing drought in the Southern Plains, NASS forecast winter wheat at 1.32 billion bushels, down 12 percent from last year.
Steve Wiyatt, director of the NASS Statistics Division, discusses highlights of the 2006 Prospective Plantings report. U.S. farmers plan to plant a lot less corn and a lot more soybeans in 2006, in part due to rising fuel and fertilizer costs.
