{"id":21413,"date":"2017-08-31T09:30:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T13:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=21413"},"modified":"2017-08-30T16:55:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T20:55:38","slug":"maryland-agriculture-secretary-urges-farmers-to-participate-in-usda-national-agricultural-statistics-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2017\/08\/31\/maryland-agriculture-secretary-urges-farmers-to-participate-in-usda-national-agricultural-statistics-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Agriculture Secretary Urges Farmers to Participate in USDA National Agricultural Statistics Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><strong>ANNAPOLIS, MD<\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 Maryland Agriculture Secretary Joe Bartenfelder is urging farmers across the state to participate in upcoming agricultural surveys by the USDA\u2019s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). NASS will be conducting its small grain production survey in early September. The agency is using this survey to asses the 2017 production and supply of small grains, which include, wheat, oats, barley, and rye.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u201cNASS surveys produce the most credible agricultural data available,\u201d said Secretary Bartenfelder. \u201cThe information obtained by these upcoming surveys help to inform everyone from farmers to lawmakers and will surely have an impact on the agriculture industry in our state. I urge all Maryland farmers to participate in the surveys so we can make sure that everyone is working with the most accurate data possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">NASS will contact Maryland survey participants in the first two weeks of September. In an effort save time and money for growers, participants will have the option to respond to the survey securely online instead of mailing the forms back to the agency. Farmers who have not responded by September 7 may receive a phone call from a NASS representative who will help them fill out the survey form.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u201cThe small grains industry is a big player in Maryland agriculture and it is crucial for us to have accurate data about this key sector of the economy,\u201d said NASS Maryland State Statistician Dale P. Hawks. \u201cWe will contact more than 750 producers in Maryland to accurately measure 2017 acreage, yield, and production for small grains. The data collected from this survey will also help set small grain acreage and production estimates at the county level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">NASS safeguards the privacy of all respondents and publishes only aggregate data, ensuring that no individual operation or producer can be identified.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Survey results will be published in several reports, including the annual\u00a0<i>Small Grains Summary<\/i>\u00a0and the quarterly\u00a0<i>Grain Stocks<\/i>\u00a0report, both to be released on September 29. These and all NASS reports are available online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nass.usda.gov\/\">www.nass.usda.gov<\/a>. For more information call the NASS Maryland Field Office at (800) 675-0295.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n# # #<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Follow Maryland Department of Agriculture on Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/mdagdept\">@MdAgDept<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANNAPOLIS, MD\u00a0\u2013 Maryland Agriculture Secretary Joe Bartenfelder is urging farmers across the state to participate in upcoming agricultural surveys by the USDA\u2019s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). NASS will be conducting its small grain production survey in early September. The agency is using this survey to asses the 2017 production and supply of small grains,<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2017\/08\/31\/maryland-agriculture-secretary-urges-farmers-to-participate-in-usda-national-agricultural-statistics-survey\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21414,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21413\/revisions\/21414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}