Source: Rhonda Garrison, SOUTHERN FARM NETWORK, 10/17/17

Linda Young of USDA-NASS explains how the desire to improve data collection for county-level crop, and cash rent, estimates led to a recent study and recommendations to reach this goal by the year 2025.“We have two primary programs that have county estimates associated with them. One of them is the County Estimates for Acreage, Yield and Production and the other is for cash rents.  And most people have heard that farmers would like for us to publish more..." 

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