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Source: USDA NASS, 5/24/22 The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will release 2021 floriculture estimates on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, at 3 p.m. EDT. NASS expanded the program to cover all 50 states and more than 30 new crops. Due to the large number of estimates being issued, the data will be released in the NASS Quick Stats database at quickstats.nass.usda.gov.
To provide data users with a quick overview of the information, a two-page
Highlights document will be posted to the NASS website. The usual PDF format
publication will not be released, due to the following changes resulting in a greatly
expanded data release:
- Beginning
with the 2021 estimates, the top 28 states will be published individually
with the remaining states combined into an "other states" total.
Care should be taken when comparing 2021 national totals with the
"Program States" totals from 2020 and prior years since fewer
states contributed to the totals in the earlier years. However,
comparisons still can be made by grouping individual published states
together from both years.
- To
better serve data users, additional crops have been added to the program
to increase coverage across all crop categories. This results in more data
being released across all states.
- Sales
data will be published as retail, wholesale, and total, rather than the
previous practice of converting non-wholesale prices to a wholesale
equivalent. This change provides estimates of price and value more
directly related to the information provided by producers.
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