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CONTENTS

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Agenda ........................................................................................................................................................ 1

Registration Link For Virtual Attendees..................................................................................................... 1

Foreign Agricultural Service....................................................................................................................... 2

World Agricultural Outlook Board............................................................................................................. 8

National Agricultural Statistics Service.................................................................................................... 11

Economic Research Service...................................................................................................................... 15

Farm Service Agency................................................................................................................................ 23

Agricultural Marketing Service ................................................................................................................ 25

U.S. Census Bureau .................................................................................................................................. 30

Notes......................................................................................................................................................... 33
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2022 USDA Data Users’ Hybrid Meeting 

Tuesday, April 19, 2022 

University of Chicago – Gleacher Center 

450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive 

Chicago, IL 60611 

 

Live Webinar – All times are Central Time 

AGENDA

12:30 pm .................................................................................................................................... Registration

1:00 p.m. .......................................... Welcome and Overview ................................................... Joe Parsons 

National Agricultural Statistics Service

1:10 p.m. ................................................ Agency Reviews ............................................................................ 

Patrick Packnett, Foreign Agricultural Service

Mark Jekanowski, World Agricultural Outlook Board 

Dan Kerestes, National Agricultural Statistics Service

Kelly Maguire, Economic Research Service

Mike Walter, Farm Service Agency

Janet Linder, Agricultural Marketing Service 

Joseph DeCampo, U.S. Census Bureau 

2:15 p.m. .......................................................... Open forum for questions and comments from participants 

2:55 p.m. .............................................................................................................................................. Break

3:15 p.m. .................................................................................................................... Open forum continues 

4:15 p.m. ...................................................................................................................Concluding Comments 

4:30 p.m. ........................................................................................................................................Departure

REGISTRATION LINK FOR VIRTUAL ATTENDEES

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-spring-data-users-meeting-chicago-il-registration310224388497
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FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL SERVICE

Update on Information and Data Products Available from

USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service

April 2022

Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN) 

USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) provides timely reports on foreign markets through the 

Global Agriculture Information Network (GAIN) database. The GAIN database houses reports from 

98 offices covering 177 countries that include timely intelligence and analysis on global agriculture, 

agricultural markets, and foreign government policies affecting agricultural trade. In 2021, approximately 

3,230 GAIN reports were submitted and published for web-based retrieval. This was an increase of 14.8% 

over the prior year. Commodity reporting requirements are reviewed annually to ensure that reporting 

aligns with changes and developments in global agricultural production and trade. Reporting on climate 

change, the impact on the war in Ukraine, and reports on the EU Farm to Fork Strategy are examples of 

new issues covered. 

GAIN reports were downloaded through the GAIN system 5.24 million times throughout this calendar 

year alone. Users can access GAIN reports dating back to 1996 from the GAIN homepage: 

https://gain.fas.usda.gov/#/.

For questions about the GAIN search engine please contact 1-GAINAppSupport@fas.usda.gov. 

To receive GAIN reports via email, register at:

https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDAFAS/subscriber/new

FAS – U.S. Agricultural Export Yearbook

The 2021 Agricultural Export Yearbook is scheduled for publishing to the FAS website the week of April 

10. The yearbook provides a statistical summary of U.S. agricultural commodity exports to the world and 

the United States’ primary trading partners. The 2021 Yearbook can be found at 

https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/2021-agricultural-export-yearbook. 

All U.S. export data found within the Yearbook are collected and published by the U.S. Census Bureau of 

the U.S. Department of Commerce. Foreign country export data are sourced from the reporting countries’ 

national statistical agencies as reported through Trade Data Monitor (TDM). The 2021 U.S. Agricultural 

Export Yearbook consists of two sections: 1) commodity exports, and 2) country of destination exports. 

The Yearbook utilized FAS product groups as defined in FAS’ Global Agricultural Trade System (GATS) 

using the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) at the ten-digit level and aggregated into classifications that 

include the primary commodity and its derivatives. FAS has titled these product groups as “BICO 

(HS-10).” BICO is an FAS designation that stands for Bulk, Intermediate & Consumer Oriented goods. 

The 13 Yearbook product groups or commodity aggregations are based on the United States’ largest export 

categories. The country Yearbook pages include the United States’ top fifteen export destinations. Each 

commodity and country page includes a list of drivers that influenced exports, market conditions affecting 

supply and demand, and policy and market access issues that impact the United States’ ability to export. 
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Global Agricultural Trade System (GATS)

USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) Global Agricultural Trade System (GATS) includes 

U.S. agricultural, fishery, and forestry trade statistics dating from the inception of the harmonized coding 

system in 1989 to present. The database is continuously updated. U.S. trade data are updated monthly 

according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s reporting system. In March 2022, FAS included revised commodity 

codes in the GATS database based on the release of the World Customs Organization’s (WCO) 7th edition 

updates to the Harmonized System (HS). Every five years, the WCO replaces, redefines, and 

re-categorizes HS codes adapting to current trade patterns and recognizing new products. The changes can 

be found in the Code Changes page in the GATS website. Users can access the GATS homepage at 

https://apps.fas.usda.gov/gats/default.aspx.

Early 2021, USDA adopted the World Trade Organization (WTO) definition of agriculture, which 

includes ethanol, distilled spirits, and manufactured tobacco products, three product groups which were 

not included in the previous USDA definition. The change harmonizes U.S. trade reporting practices with 

those of the international community and ensures that USDA numbers are aligned with those of the Office 

of the U.S. Trade Representative, which had already used the WTO agricultural definition when 

negotiating WTO binding trade agreements. USDA made this change in coordination with the 

U.S. Department of Commerce.

Users can find additional information at https://www.fas.usda.gov/updated-agricultural-productsdefinition-trade-reporting. 

For questions, please contact Jason Carver (Jason.Carver@usda.gov) or Saquib Ahsan 

(Saquib.Ahsan@usda.gov). 

Production, Supply and Distribution (PSD) Online

USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) PSD Online provides reports and the option for custom 

queries for data on production, supply, and distribution of those agricultural commodities and commodity 

aggregates published in the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimate (WASDE) Report, and for 

the U.S. and key producing and consuming countries and aggregated regions, going back to 1960. 

The international portion of the data is updated with input from agricultural attachés stationed at

U.S. embassies around the world, FAS commodity analysts, and country and commodity analysts with the 

Economic Research Service (ERS). The U.S. domestic component is updated with input from analysts in 

FAS, ERS, the National Agricultural Statistical Service, and the Farm Service Agency. Interagency work 

on the database is carried out under the aegis of the World Agricultural Outlook Board (WAOB). 

The official USDA supply and distribution data is published monthly in: WAOB, WASDE; in the foreign 

agricultural commodity circular series issued by FAS; and in the regional situation and outlook reports 

and monthly commodity newsletters of ERS.

Users can access PSD online at https://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/app/index.html#/app/home.

For questions, please contact us at https://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/app/index.html#/app/contact.

Export Sales Reporting 

Authorized under Section 602 of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978, the Export Sales Reporting (ESR) 

Program requires exporters of reportable U.S. commodities to report each week all their export sales 

regardless of the quantity, to the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), United States Department of 
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Agriculture (USDA). There are 40 commodities currently covered under the program to include wheat, 

wheat products, barley, corn, grain sorghum, oats, rye, soybeans, soybean cake and meal, soybean oil, 

flaxseed, linseed oil, cotton, sunflower seed oil, cottonseed, cottonseed cake and meal, cottonseed oil, rice, 

cattle hides and skins, wet blues, beef, and pork. Users can access the ESR System at 

https://apps.fas.usda.gov/export-sales/esrd1.html.

Although the stage one upgrades to the Export Sales Reporting and Maintenance System (ESRMS) were 

completed earlier this fiscal year, FAS continues to improve the upgraded ESRMS with the addition of 

electronic data entry capabilities which will allow exporters to easily upload weekly reporting. In addition 

to being available online through the ESR webpage and the ESR Query System, weekly and daily reports 

are now available through email via GovDelivery to all users who sign up. To receive ESR daily reports 

via email, register at: https://public.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDAFAS/subscriber/new.

For additional information, contact the Export Sales Reporting team at esr@usda.gov.

FAS Data Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) 

USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) data API portal provides users the ability to obtain 

programmatic access to publicly available agricultural commodity data from the Global Agricultural 

Trade System (GATS), Production, Supply & Distribution (PSD), and Export Sales Report (ESR) 

databases. 

The FAS Open Data Services can be found at https://apps.fas.usda.gov/opendataweb/home. 

For technical questions, please contact the FAS Web Admin Team at FASWebAdminTeam@usda.gov.

Agricultural Tariff Tracker

To help exporters obtain information about tariff reductions resulting from free trade agreements (FTAs), 

FAS launched the Agricultural Tariff Tracker in 2013. The Ag Tariff Tracker has tariff, tariff rate quota 

(TRQ), and safeguard information for the United States’ existing free trade agreements with 11 FTA 

partners. In 2019, terms of the U.S.– Japan Trade agreement were added to the Ag Tariff Tracker. 

This tool is available at https://apps.fas.usda.gov/agtarifftracker/Home/Search on the Trade Policy/Trade 

Agreements topic page of the FAS website: https://www.fas.usda.gov/topics/trade-agreements. 

Production Estimates

FAS maintains a website that is a dynamic global crop production portal with key information including 

World Agricultural Production (WAP) briefs, Commodity Intelligence Reports (CIR), geospatial 

applications, crop production maps, and crop calendars at a subnational level for the top-20 producing 

countries (Figure 1, https://www.ipad.fas.usda.gov).
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Figure 1. FAS home page for global crop production
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The FAS website for global crop production also hosts an application called Crop Explorer that displays 

global and routinely updated data on precipitation, average temperature, maximum/minimum temperature, 

evapotranspiration, soil moisture, SPI (Standardized Precipitation Index) Drought Severity, NDVI 

(Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) vegetation conditions, snow cover, production maps, etc. Crop 

Explorer supports monitoring of conditions for 12 different crops: cotton, corn, barley, millet, rice, 

sorghum, wheat, soybeans, sunflower, rapeseed, peanuts, and palm oil. 

(https://ipad.fas.usda.gov/cropexplorer/).

Crop Explorer also monitors SPI Drought Severity in 5-day time steps to quickly identify the severity of 

droughts that may reduce crop yields during the growing season. Efforts are underway to expand the crop 

production maps and calendars to the top-30 producing countries.

The Crop Explorer website was upgraded to monitor the latest crop conditions and seasonal rainfall 

received for specific crops grown within primary production states. The upgraded Crop Explorer monitors 

specific crops with related web apps called Corn Explorer, Soybean Explorer, Wheat Explorer, Cotton 

Explorer, etc. For example, the dashboard view for Corn Explorer shows corn production maps at 

sub-national (state and county) levels, cumulative rainfall, and NDVI crop conditions for all major 

corn-producing countries and regions (Figure 2).

For more information, please contact Curt Reynolds at curt.reynolds@usda.gov.

Figure 2. Commodity Explorers and Dashboard View of Corn Explorer (March 2022)

Global Agricultural and Disaster Assessment System (GADAS)

GADAS is a state-of-the-art Geographic Information System (GIS) that integrates a vast array of highly 

detailed earth observation data streams with cropland datasets to facilitate agricultural and disaster 
 

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assessments, into an easy-to-use, web-based environment. GADAS provides analysts with a wide variety 

of routine geospatial products (maps, charts, tables) they require for comprehensive situational 

investigations and recurring assessments. GADAS can be accessed directly at 

(https://geo.fas.usda.gov/GADAS/index.html) or through (https://www.ipad.fas.usda.gov).

GADAS will help USDA/FAS remain a global leader in the use of location-based technologies for 

agricultural monitoring and global food security intelligence. The system combines daily weather, climate, 

crop conditions, satellite imagery, and other geospatial data with custom-built applications that quickly 

support the visual comparison of agricultural production-related data. GADAS is also designed to provide 

hourly updates of natural disasters (cyclone tracking, drought evolution, flooding impacts) as well as tools 

for rapid pre- and post-disaster agricultural assessments. Web-based GIS improves collaboration between 

teams in FAS working around the world. 

For questions, please contact Lisa Colson at lisa.colson@usda.gov. 

Figure 3. GADAS home page 
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United States Department of Agriculture 

WORLD AGRICULTURAL OUTLOOK BOARD

Questions about World Agricultural Outlook Board programs may be directed to Mark Jekanowski, Chairman, WAOB, 

Mail Stop 3812, South Building, USDA, Washington, D.C. 20250-3812; Mark.Jekanowski@usda.gov.

The World Agricultural Outlook Board’s (WAOB) primary mission is to provide reliable and objective 

economic forecasts for farmers and other participants in the food and fiber system. Functions include 

coordinating USDA forecasts of domestic and international agriculture; providing economic analysis 

related to global commodity markets; monitoring markets and agricultural weather; and disseminating 

relevant commodity market information.

Mark Jekanowski, WAOB Chairman, oversees the creation of the World Agricultural Supply and 

Demand Estimates (WASDE) report and chairs the Program Committee for USDA’s annual Agricultural 

Outlook Forum. Former positions include Deputy Director for the commodity outlook program at USDA’s 

Economic Research Service (ERS), Chief of the Crops Branch at ERS, and Senior Vice President at 

Informa Economics.

The Interagency Commodity Estimates Committees (ICECs), chaired by WAOB senior economists, clear 

all USDA commodity outlook reports to ensure consistency with official USDA estimates. The 

committees develop supply and demand estimates for the United States, over 100 individual countries, 

and global totals. Four USDA agencies are represented on the committees: Economic Research Service, 

Foreign Agricultural Service, Farm Service Agency, and the Agricultural Marketing Service. 

Report Usage: Each year, WAOB issues 12 monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates

(WASDE) reports; and publishes 52 weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin reports. On average, the WASDE 

is accessed by over 100,000 users worldwide each month. It is one of USDA’s Principal Federal Economic 

Indicators and directly impacts commodity markets. The WASDE report is available at: 

https://www.usda.gov/oce/commodity/wasde

USDA Baseline: WAOB oversees the annual publication of the inter-agency USDA Agricultural 

Long-term Projections. The Long-term Projections report provides a conditional long run scenario about 

what would be expected to happen to the global agricultural economy under a continuation of current farm 

legislation and other specific assumptions. These reports are an important source of strategic planning 

information used in formulating the President’s budget and for decision-making by agricultural producers, 

agribusiness leaders, and policy officials. The latest edition can be found at 

https://www.usda.gov/oce/commodity-markets/baseline.

Mark Brusberg, Chief Meteorologist, is a key contributor to, and main point of contact for, 

drought-related activities involving the Department and other Federal Partners, especially the National 

Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Mr. Brusberg serves on the Executive Council of the 

NOAA-led National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) and leads several projects related to 

the work done by NIDIS and other drought-oriented groups on behalf of the Department. He currently 

serves in a leadership capacity on the National Drought Resilience Partnership (NDRP), an 

intergovernmental task force offering leadership in the coordination and administration of activities 
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designed to help mitigate the impacts of drought on vulnerable segments of the Nation’s economy. He is 

also a lead USDA representative to the Interagency Council for Advancing Meteorological Services 

(ICAMS).

Mr. Brusberg chairs USDA’s Combined Drought and Water Management Team, a venue for other 

agencies within the Department to share information and coordinate responses on projects and programs 

involving drought and water resources. As the Departmental lead on Drought, he facilitates partnerships 

between USDA and other groups, including the NDRP, NIDIS, ICAMS, and the National Drought 

Mitigation Center (NDMC). 

Agricultural Weather Monitoring and Assessments: WAOB’s staff of meteorologists generate timely 

weather and crop assessments in support of the monthly Crop Production and WASDE reports issued by 

National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) and WAOB, respectively. The meteorologists also 

provide weekly updates of crop weather to USDA Radio and often appear on local and national radio and 

television broadcasts. As recognized experts within the Department, they are often tasked with attending 

Capitol Hill briefings and reviewing legislation and testimony and contribute assessments and products to 

the USDA blog and other publications. Another key duty is to meet with foreign delegations and domestic 

groups regarding the process of using weather and climate products to produce operational agricultural 

assessments. WAOB meteorologists publish the Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin (WWCB), which 

provides the public with weekly assessments of global agricultural weather. Data and products are 

supplied to the WWCB by NASS and NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, through a formal agreement 

establishing the Joint Agricultural Weather Facility. The WWCB averaged over 10,000 downloads per 

week in FY21 from the USDA site, and additional downloads from the Cornell site. On a rotating basis, 

WAOB meteorologists prepared the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor and the monthly North American 

Drought Monitor. WAOB continues to engage our international counterparts and lends support to 

activities led by the World Meteorological Organization and Global Water Partnership. WAOB weather 

products can be found at: https://www.usda.gov/oce/weather-drought-monitor

Agricultural Outlook Forum: The Agricultural Outlook Forum (AOF) is USDA’s largest and premiere 

annual gathering. The breadth and timeliness of the AOF programs have consistently drawn a diverse 

group of participants including producers, processors, policymakers, government officials, and 

non-governmental organizations, to discuss current and emerging issues. During the Forum, USDA’s chief 

economist unveils the Department’s initial forecasts for the U.S. agricultural economy, commodity 

markets, and foreign trade for the new marketing year and discusses the farm income situation. 

The 2022 Forum was held virtually under the theme, “New Paths to Sustainability and Productivity 

Growth.” Nearly 6,000 people from 50 States and over 90 countries attended this year’s Forum. 

Sessions covered a range of topics relating to sustainability in agriculture, frontiers in ag 

innovation and productivity, commodity market outlooks, supply chain resilience, and U.S. trade, 

among other topics. All sessions are available for viewing for free until February 11, 2023 and 

can be accessed at Forum website: https://www.usda.gov/oce/ag-outlook-forum. 
 

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INTERAGENCY COMMODITY ESTIMATES COMMITTEES

Note: The World Agricultural Outlook Board reviews and approves the World Agricultural Supply and 

Demand Estimates (WASDE) report. The Board’s analysts chair the Interagency Commodity Estimates 

Committees (ICECs) that prepare the monthly report. 

Wheat: Mark Simone, ICEC Chair, WAOB, mark.simone@usda.gov

Andrew Sowell, ERS; Rachel Trego, FAS; Pete Riley, FPAC.

Rice: Mark Simone, ICEC Chair, WAOB, mark.simone@usda.gov

Nathan Childs, ERS; Rachel Trego, FAS; Pete Riley, FPAC.

Feed Grains: Michael Jewison, ICEC Chair, WAOB, michael.jewison2@usda.gov

Michael McConnell, ERS; Yoonhee Macke, FAS; Sharon Raszap, FPAC.

Oilseeds: Keith Menzie, ICEC Chair, WAOB, keith.menzie@usda.gov

Maria Bukowski, ERS; Bill George, FAS; Gustavo Ferreira, FPAC.

Cotton: Stephen MacDonald, ICEC Chair, WAOB, stephen.macdonald3@usda.gov

Leslie Meyer, ERS; Graham Soley, FAS; Kent Lanclos, FPAC.

Sugar: Stephen Haley, ICEC Chair, WAOB, stephen.haley2@usda.gov 

Vida Abadam, ERS; Souleymane Diaby, FAS; Barbara Fecso, FPAC. 

Meat Animals: Shayle Shagam, ICEC Chair, WAOB, shayle.shagam@usda.gov

Sherry Wise, AMS; Mildred Haley, ERS; Jacob Vuillemin, FAS; Georgi Gabrielyan, FPAC.

Poultry: Shayle Shagam, ICEC Chair, WAOB, shayle.shagam@usda.gov

Peyton Ferrier, AMS; Grace Grossen, ERS; Claire Mezoughem, FAS; Georgi Gabrielyan, 

FPAC.

Dairy: Shayle Shagam, ICEC Chair, WAOB, shayle.shagam@usda.gov

Carolyn Liebrand, AMS; Jerry Cessna, ERS; Paul Kiendl, FAS; Georgi Gabrielyan, FPAC.

In 2022, the WASDE report will be released on Apr 8, May 12, Jun 10, 

Jul 12, Aug 12, Sep 12, Oct 12, Nov 9, and Dec 9.
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NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE

STATISTICS DIVISION

What’s New and What’s Changing?

NASS Mission Statement:

To provide timely, accurate, and useful statistics in service to U.S. Agriculture

Crops

NASS published the first-ever National Hemp Report in February 2022. This landmark report provides 

needed data about the hemp industry to assist producers, regulatory agencies, state governments, 

processors, and other key industry entities. The Domestic Hemp Production Program, established in the 

Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill), allows for the cultivation of hemp under certain 

conditions. The report includes information on the acreage, yield, production, price, and value of hemp in 

the United States. Plans are underway for the next report, expected to be published in early-2023.

NASS made several enhancements to the annual Floriculture program, including expanding to a 50-state 

program and adding 25 new crops. Additionally, NASS will publish sales as retail, wholesale, and total, 

rather than the current practice of converting non-wholesale prices to a wholesale equivalent. This change 

will provide estimates more directly related to the information provided by producers. These changes 

resulted from a thorough review following the 2019 Census of Horticultural Specialties. The Floriculture 

Crops report will be published on May 25, 2022. 

As part of our efforts to continually improve, NASS launched a thorough review of the Grain Stocks 

program in late-2020. A team of experts across the Agency took a close look at every aspect of the program 

from data collection through publication. NASS is currently reviewing the team’s recommendations for 

potential action.

Livestock

On January 12, 2022, NASS Broiler Hatchery report discontinued the percent of the previous year values 

in the publication. Data from Quick Stats may be used to derive the percentages. 

Beginning on February 22, 2022, the Poultry Slaughter publication, for the “Condemned Post-Mortem by 

Cause and Type” tables on pages 6 and 9 will include a new category “Unknown”. This change aligns the 

NASS report with the Food Safety and Inspection Service’s (FSIS) poultry systems. Previous month’s 

data is published in the same format for comparability purposes. The “Total” category will no longer be 

published. Data may be added to derive the cause totals.

On March 30, 2022, NASS will livestream the Secretary of Agriculture’s data report briefing for the first 

time on the Hogs and Pigs report at 3:05 pm. All future hogs and pigs reports and cattle reports will be 

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In June 2021, NASS started to host Stat Chat on Twitter after the releases of Quarterly Hogs and Pigs and 

Cattle reports. This provides an opportunity for the public to ask questions pertaining to the release.

Environmental, Economics and Demographics 

On November 24, 2021, the Farm Labor data was released. The sample size was reduced for this survey 

as a result of discontinuing the collection of data for base wages and hours.

On April 28, 2022, Local Food Marketing Practices will be released. This is the second release in the data 

series that was last conducted in 2015. This study provides data on the marketing of locally and regionally 

produced agricultural food products, as directed under the 2018 Farm Bill. The briefing will stream on 

NASS’s YouTube channel at 3:05 p.m. ET.

On May 13, 2022, Field Crop Chemical Usage data will be released. Originating in 1990, the NASS 

Chemical Use data series is USDA’s official source of statistics about on-farm chemical use and pest 

management practices. 

On July 20, 2022, Fruit Chemical Usage data will be released. This report is released every other year. 

Originating in 1990, the NASS Chemical Use data series is USDA’s official source of statistics about 

on-farm chemical use and pest management practices.

The Cash Rents county level data will be published on August 26, 2022. NASS was directed through the 

“Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008” and amended by the “Agricultural Act of 2014” to collect 

cash rents data for use by the Farm Service Agency (FSA) in program administration. This will be the 

second year that Bayesian small area models will be used for county-level rented acre totals and rental 

rates.

On September 15, 2022, the Conservation Practices Adoption Motivation Survey (CPAM) will be 

released. CPAM is a two-year cooperative effort with NRCS to measure farmers’ and ranchers’ 

conservation practices adoption behaviors and adoption reasons on cropland, grazing land, forest land and 

concentrated livestock feeding operations. The focus of the 2022 survey is crops and livestock 

conservation practices, while the 2024 survey will focus on grazing and forest land on farms.

On December 15, 2022, the Organics data will be released. The 2021 Organic Survey will be conducted 

under the authority of the Census of Agriculture Act of 1997. The primary purpose of the Organic Survey 

is to provide acreage, inventory, production, value of sales and sales outlets and production practices on 

certified organic farms. The Organic Survey will provide comprehensive data at the State and National 

level for organic crops, livestock, and marketing and production practices. The last release was on 

October 22, 2020. The briefing will stream on NASS’s YouTube channel at 3:05 p.m. ET.

Census of Agriculture Program 

Currently underway is the final push to expand our coverage of farms and ranches in the census mail list. 

The final National Agricultural Classification Survey was mailed out this past December to over 

1.1 million potential farmers and ranchers. Data collection for this ag screener runs through May. 

NASS will begin mailing the 2022 Census of Agriculture to nearly 3 million farms and ranches in late 

2022. Overall, the content will be very similar to the 2017 questionnaire with limited changes including 

questions about precision agriculture and hemp utilization. NASS will continue to leverage its online 
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reporting instrument for the upcoming census of agriculture by capitalizing on responsive web-design 

technology to allow respondents to provide their valuable data using mobile devices, such as tablets and 

smart phones. The online tool also streamlines reporting which will provide the respondent the added 

benefit of a more customized instrument based on the types of crops and livestock their operation 

produces. And for the first time, NASS intends to provide online respondents with access to select data 

that they have previously reported in a recent NASS survey.

Modernization 

USDA NASS is committed to high standards of customer service and making it easy for farmers, ranchers, 

and data users to interact with us. NASS is modernizing their online systems to improve the customer 

experience around reporting data and accessing NASS official federal agricultural data and reports. We 

are making accurate data available on schedule in ways that customers like yourself have told us they 

want. 

NASS has continued its ongoing efforts to modernize its customer interfaces, making responding to 

surveys and accessing NASS data and reports faster, friendlier, and easier. This modernization effort also 

allows NASS to work more efficiently. Modernization will be focused in two main areas, Data Collection 

and Data Dissemination.

Data Collection - NASS recently released the new Respondent Portal and all new data collections 

now flow through this modern entry point. Immediate benefits of the portal are 

• Streamlined authentication process provides a convenient, central point to respond to all NASS 

surveys. 

• Creating and using a user account allows respondents to see past survey responses.

Incremental development and improvements over the next few years will further meet customer 

expectations, such as 

• Improve performance and speed of the portal and offer additional options for reporting data to 

NASS including an upload feature.

• Providing a customized digital experience designed around the user’s needs and behaviors. 

Farmers and ranchers will be able to build and save custom homepages to compare their data 

with other (national, state, county) data. 

• Integration with USDA’s Farmers.gov website, allowing farmers, ranchers, and agribusinesses 

to expand their access to multiple USDA agencies’ information to make decisions for their 

operation that are fact based and data driven.

Data Dissemination - In 2022, the new Data Dissemination System is planning for a roll-out. A new 

Dairy release landing page is planned to replace the current paper-based releases. The first topic areas 

going live will feature: Milk production, milk PDI, cattle, cold storage, dairy products, and non-Census 

organic data. In 2023, these items are scheduled for roll-out: Economics releases, field crops, more 

livestock commodities, and aquaculture. In 2024, horticulture, floriculture, demographics, poultry, and 

fruits, nuts and vegetables are planned for production. The data will be formatted for efficient query 

capabilities and presented in modern, dynamic pages.

NASS is committed to providing timely, accurate, and useful agricultural data that help all data users 

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NASS Links

Visit the NASS website (www.nass.usda.gov) and follow us on Twitter @usda_nass to stay up to date.

Link to the USDA, NASS Agricultural Statistics Board Calendar:

https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Calendar/2022/2022PrintCalendar.pdf

Link to the 2022 NASS Guide to Products and Services: 

https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/catalog.pdf
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FARM SERVICE AGENCY

The Farm Service Agency (FSA) supports farms and farming communities with programs including 

disaster relief, conservation programs, commodity price guarantee programs, and loan programs. Since 

the fall data meeting, FSA has been delivering a host of core Farm Bill programs and continued support 

of pandemic related programs. 

Recent program updates include:

Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) Program 

The 2022 Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) program signup 

concluded on March 15. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) offers these two safety net 

programs to provide vital income support to farmers experiencing substantial declines in crop 

prices or revenues. ARCPLC annually enrolls over 246 million acres on over 1.9 million farms. 

Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) 

Agricultural producers and landowners were provided the opportunity to enroll for the 

Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), a cornerstone conservation program offered by the Farm 

Service Agency. The General CRP signup ran from January 31 to March 11, and the Grassland 

CRP signup will run from April 4 to May 13.

General CRP helps producers and landowners establish long-term, resource-conserving plant 

species, such as approved grasses or trees, to control soil erosion, improve water quality and 

enhance wildlife habitat on cropland. 

Grassland CRP is a working lands program, helping landowners and operators protect grassland, 

including rangeland, pastureland, and certain other lands, while maintaining the areas as working 

grazing lands. 

Alongside these programs, producers and landowners can enroll acres in Continuous CRP under 

the ongoing signup, which includes projects available through the Conservation Reserve 

Enhancement Program (CREP) and State Acres for Wildlife Enhancement (SAFE). 

Organic and Transitional Education and Certification Program (OTECP)

FSA provides assistance for eligible expenses paid during the 2020, 2021, and 2022 fiscal years 

for certified operations and transitional operations.

For each year, OTECP covers 25% of a certified operation’s eligible certification expenses and up 

to $250 per certification category (crop, livestock, wild crop, handling, and State Organic Program 

fee). This includes application fees, inspection fees, USDA organic certification costs, state 

organic program fees, and more. 

Crop and livestock operations transitioning to organic production may be eligible for 75% of a 

transitional operation’s eligible expenses and up to $750 for each year. This includes fees charged 

by a certifying agent or consultant for pre-certification inspections and development of an organic 

system plan. 
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Spot Market Hog Pandemic Program (SMHPP)

The Spot Market Hog Pandemic Program (SMHPP) is part of USDA’s Pandemic Assistance for 

Producers initiative and addresses gaps in previous assistance for hog producers. SMHPP provides 

assistance to hog producers who sold hogs through a negotiated sale from April 16, 2020, through 

September 1, 2020. Negotiated sale, or negotiated formula sale, means a sale of hogs by a producer 

to a packer under which the base price for the hogs is determined by seller-buyer interaction and 

agreement on delivery day. USDA is offering SMHPP as packer production was reduced during 

the COVID-19 pandemic due to employee illness and supply chain issues, resulting in fewer 

negotiated hogs being procured and subsequently lower market prices.

Pandemic Assistance for Timber Harvesters and Haulers (PATHH) Program

The Farm Service Agency begin issuing final pandemic assistance payments to timber harvesters 

and timber hauling businesses through the Pandemic Assistance for Timber Harvesters and 

Haulers (PATHH) program. In total, $200 million will be provided to loggers and log trucking 

businesses who experienced a gross revenue loss of at least 10% during the period of 

January 1, 2020, through December 1, 2020, compared to the period of January 1, 2019, through 

December 1, 2019. This support is part of USDA’s broader Pandemic Assistance for Producers 

initiative.
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AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE

The mission of USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) 

is to facilitate the competitive and efficient marketing of agricultural products. 

USDA DATA USERS SPRING MEETING 2022

The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) administers programs that create domestic and international 

marketing opportunities for U.S. producers of food, fiber, and specialty crops. AMS also provides the 

agriculture industry with valuable services to ensure the quality and availability of wholesome food for 

consumers across the country. 

Nearly 4,000 AMS professionals work every day to support the country’s diverse agricultural operations, 

which range from individual farmers to international businesses and employ 1 in 12 people. AMS services 

and its millions of dollars in annual grant investments also create opportunities by supporting economic 

development in small towns and rural communities that stand as the backbone of American values.

Much of the agency’s support for agriculture is provided through commodity-specific efforts, such as its 

Dairy; Specialty Crops; Livestock and Poultry; and Cotton and Tobacco Programs. AMS also oversees 

the National Organic Program; Science and Technology Program; and the Transportation and Marketing 

Program. AMS also provides regulatory oversight for over 20 research and promotion programs and 

enforces other Federal regulations such as the Packers and Stockyards Act, the Perishable Agricultural 

Commodities Act (PACA) and the Seed Act.

CURRENT ISSUES OF INTEREST

My Market News 

The Market Analysis & Reporting Services (MARS) and its public facing website, My Market News and 

related API continue to expand its offerings to data users in 2022. 

Market News continues to implement Market Analysis and Reporting Services’ (MARS) advanced 

technical capabilities and additional market types. In FY 2021, MARS and its public facing website, My 

Market News, continued to add more market types and reports to those available to the public. Through 

My Market News, users can now access data for over 697 unique market reports disseminated from over 

45 Market News offices across the country. Currently, users can access dairy, cotton quality, truck rates, 

trends, egg inventory, auction livestock, video auctions, direct hay, auction hay, direct livestock, tobacco, 

rice, feedstuffs, and grain market information through My Market News. Market information for retail, 

national feeder cattle summary, bioenergy, international imports, and exports, and the Specialty Crops 
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market types of terminals, shipping point, and movement will transition to My Market News by the end 

of 2022. 

Additionally, through the MARS and LMR Application Programming Interfaces (API), customers can 

now access data from over 836 unique market reports. The APIs allows users to automatically download 

data in custom formats. After a one-time setup, the API will continue to deliver the requested information 

to the user in the established format without further action. Other updates that have been implemented on 

the site over the past year include the functionality that allows users to identify corrected data sets both by 

report and through the My Market News API and Livestock Mandatory Reporting (LMR) API. 

In February 2022, the Livestock, Poultry and Grain Market News (LPGMN) program introduced the 

USDA Market News Mobile Application v1.0 (app) with free iOS and Android versions available to 

download through the Apple and Google Play stores. The app gives users instant access to nearly 

800 livestock, poultry, and grain market reports from both voluntary and Livestock Mandatory Reporting 

sources. The app lets users search for current and historical reports by location, State, or commodity. Users 

can also add reports to their favorites for easier access, share reports via text or email, subscribe to reports, 

and share the aggregated data behind reports via email. The app provides real-time notifications when a 

new report is published without any delays. Version 2.0 of the app, expected to be released mid-summer, 

will add market information for other commodities along with additional enhancements to facilitate easy 

access to market information. This new tool is part of a multi-year initiative to improve the Market News 

customer experience by providing easier access to data through the latest media technologies.

Federal-State Cooperation

AMS Market News has Federal-State Cooperative Agreements with 30 states for commodity market 

reporting activities. These cooperative working relationships enable resources at the Federal and State 

levels to be leveraged to expand the breadth, depth, and dissemination of market reporting to the benefit 

of the industry and information users. State reporters cover livestock auction and grain elevator markets, 

and other local reporting activities, such as farmers markets, that would otherwise be costly and more 

difficult to cover using Federal resources alone. 

Organic Market Reporting

AMS Market News currently reports over 240 organic commodities, and tracks and reports organic 

markets at three main levels – shipping point or point of entry (for imports), wholesale, and retail. 

Reporting of organic commodities at shipping point usually includes tracking the volume of movement, 

which consists of domestic shipments or crossings from Mexico/imports from other countries. Market 

News provides some comprehensive reports for the organic sector, such as the daily National Specialty 

Crops Organic Summary. AMS has a webpage showcasing Market News organic reports including a 

Weekly Retail Organic Price Comparison Report that shows the price differences between organic and 

conventional products to assist stakeholders in analysis of commodity sales and consumers’ willingness 

to pay for organic products. 

Market Information Organization of the Americas/International Collaboration

AMS Market News serves as the chair of the Market Information Organization of the Americas (MIOA), 

a cooperation network of institutions from 33 countries that operate like Market News. These institutions 

track and report major markets within their nations to ensure the availability of reliable information for 

their agro-industrial complex, relevant ministries, and government agencies. MIOA works to harmonize 
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efforts, identify and share best practices, and support trade and economic development through the 

availability of critical market data. MIOA supports the concept that timely and unbiased market 

information helps provide market transparency – a basic public good. MIOA and AMS Market News have 

partnered to create the MIOA Toolbox, a five-part series of modules available in English, Spanish, and 

Portuguese. This series has provided hundreds of leading market information specialists, data analysts, 

and various strategic partners from the 33 member countries with key information on the strategies, new 

tools, and good practices to improve market reporting across the Americas. The five modules are titled:

• Components of a Successful MIS

• Value of and Strategies for Accurate Market Information 

• Market Reporter: Profile and Good Practices for Success

• Good Practices for MIS in Preparation for Emergencies

• Outreach, Education and Promotion for MIS

AMS Market News, along with the other data agencies of USDA, is partnering with the Foreign 

Agricultural Service (FAS) to deliver capacity building programs in the Dominican Republic and the State 

of Maharashtra, India. AMS is drawing upon the MIOA Toolbox for these training programs for market 

information specialists. Information specialists from other countries have sat in on these advanced training 

programs, greatly increasing the reach and impact of these programs. Additional projects for improving 

Market Information Systems with guidance from AMS Market News are also underway in Ecuador, Peru, 

and Paraguay.

Livestock, Poultry, and Grain Market News Reporting

Livestock, Poultry, and Grain Market News (LPGMN) continues to focus much of its efforts on improving 

our customers’ experience by providing greater access to LPGMN data through more modern tools, 

including transitioning market data and reports to My Market News. LPGMN is also focused on conducting 

industry outreach to understand the opportunities and challenges presented as part of the reauthorization 

process of the Livestock Mandatory Reporting (LMR) Act of 1999. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 

2022 (Act), passed in March 2022, extended LMR authorization through September 30, 2022. The Act 

also provided funding to the Livestock, Poultry, and Grain Market News Division to develop and maintain 

a Cattle Contracts Library (CCL) pilot program similar to the Swine Contract Library maintained by the 

Packers and Stockyards Division. Development of the CCL is underway and expected to be released 

publicly no later than September 30, 2023. 

Data users are encouraged to access the My Market News API, the LMR API, and the legacy LMR Web

Service to consume LPGMN data more effectively, efficiently, and on demand. Data users can also access 

LMR report data through the XML Format link at the bottom of each PDF report, and through the LMR 

API. The LMR API offers access to all LMR, Dairy Mandatory, and Federal Milk Marking Order reports 

and data. 

Cotton Market News Reporting

During the 2021-2022 cotton crop year, Cotton Market News will be monitoring the quality of the crop 

and adding special reports to the to the Weekly Cotton Market Review as quality issues are identified. 

Cotton Quality Data files will be available in My Market News. The weekly cotton quality data file 

contains classification information for all bales classed in a given week. The file contains data for Upland 

and Pima cotton. The identification includes the Cotton Program’s Classing Office number or the two-digit 

State Code in which the bale was ginned, depending on the file accessed. The data does not contain 

individual bale identification (gin and bale number). This data can be used to produce statistical reports 
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for various combinations of cotton quality information. Cotton Price Excel and CSV files are available in 

My Market News. Historical files continue to be loaded and files will be available going back to at least 

the 2014-2015 marketing year. Additional Cotton Price datasets are available by request. E-mail 

CottonMN@usda.gov or Barbara.Meredith@usda.gov if you are interested in Cotton Price datasets. 

Dairy Market News Reporting

Dairy Market News (DMN) continues to enhance My Market News, improving access to information and 

data for the dairy industry. CME Group daily pricing information for butter, cheese, nonfat dry milk, and 

dry whey is now available in My Market News, along with weekly, monthly, and yearly averages. 

Enhancements to APIs at the My Market News landing pages are available, with updates made regularly 

to meet customer needs. API documentation is displayed on the homepage of each Dairy Market News 

report in the My Market News system. 

Reports of mandatory dairy product survey prices and Federal order statistics are published by the Dairy 

Market Information Branch (MIB) on the My Market News website, the AMS website, and Cornell’s 

USDA Economics, Statistics and Market Information System (ESMIS). The underlying data for these 

reports are available in Datamart and the associated API, both part of the Livestock Mandatory Reporting 

system. Sample API workbooks are also available on the My Market News website.

Specialty Crops Market News Reporting

Specialty Crops Market News (SCMN) added new packages, origins, and varieties to its market reports 

as they emerged in the marketplace, or in response to industry requests to report new products or enhance 

existing products. The National Retail Report – Specialty Crops has grown to be one of the mostly closed 

tracked reports published by Market News. SCMN tracks approximately 410 supermarket chains, with 

over 30,300 individual outlets. Overall, SCMN tracks over 785 unique specialty crop commodities at three 

market levels (retail, wholesale, and shipping point) plus the movement, which consists of domestic 

shipments, crossings from Mexico, and import volumes. To better meet specialized information needs, 

the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement Seasonal Perishable Products Weekly Update, was created to 

highlight the seasonal market situation on several of the most widely imported specialty crops 

commodities, with additional commentary and market price and volume data visualizations.

SCMN gained access to the Automated Commercial Environment/International Trade Data System 

(ACE), implemented through the joint efforts of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), 

Homeland Security, and the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). SCMN transitioned to using the ACE 

system as the primary source of import data, starting with the northern border on January 2, 2020. On 

January 3, 2021, SCMN continued the transition to ACE for all other points and ports of entry, excluding 

Mexico Crossings through Nogales, Arizona. The ACE data using the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) 

codes is timelier, allowing SCMN to have daily reports for hundreds of commodities, and it reflects the 

more actual volumes, as it covers all ports and points of entry. 

SCMN worked closely with industry leaders to request new HTS codes from the International Trade 

Commission (ITC) to increase the specificity of the ACE data and provide transparency for commodities 

that have significant economic value in the marketplace. Recent successful requests added commodities 

including organic raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries, cilantro, tomatillos, and green onions. The 

ITC’s 484(f) Committee will be considering several requests for new HTS codes this spring including cut 

flowers, ornamental greens, and more detail for commodities such as peppers, cucumbers, and squash.
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Agricultural Transportation Open Data Visualization Platform – AgTransport

The AgTransport platform offers farmers, commodity analysts, elevator operators, shippers, and other 

stakeholders access to USDA data that can help them make timely market decisions about moving 

agricultural products across the country and around the world. This free, open data platform contains 

numerous datasets and dashboards about the four modes—rail, truck, barge, and ocean vessel—used to 

transport agricultural products.

AgTransport facilitates easy analytics. Users can gain personalized insight through interactive charts, and 

they can generate and save their own unique visualizations and data views that will be updated 

automatically over time. If they wish, users also can share their visualizations with others in the tool’s 

open data community. AgTransport makes data available in many different, open formats and 

automatically generates and maintains an Application Programming Interface (API) for each dataset.

There have been many new features added to the platform with the latest expansion in July. One feature 

helps users visualize data about international transport costs to better understand international trade 

competitiveness. New interactive datasets have been added related to highway infrastructure from the 

report, The Importance of Highways to U.S. Agriculture, released in December 2020. There is also an 

online version of the 2021 Compendium of Agricultural Transportation Research, which offers insight on 

all major transport modes by highlighting the main findings and methods from recent research between 

2015 and 2021.

Other features on the platform include: 

• Grain Transportation Cost Indicators and Global Competitiveness Dashboard with data on Brazil, 

Mexico, and Japan

• Interactive Rail Dashboard with expanded Data, Maps, and Analysis, featuring 14 years of Surface 

Transportation Board Public Waybill data in an easy-to-use, accessible format

• Agricultural Rail Service Metrics Dashboard

• Barge Dashboard with additional rivers and locks added to the waterway Lock Performance 

Management Data

• Ocean Port Profiles Dashboard

• Bulk and Container Ocean Fleet Data

• Grain Trucking Indicators

• Refrigerated Truck Dashboard with Rates, Volumes, and Availability

• Dashboard for selected Grain Price and Basis Data

• Digitized Modal Share Analysis for Transportation of U.S. Grains

• Biofuels Dashboard, including Ethanol, Biodiesel, and DDGs
 

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U.S. CENSUS BUREAU

The U.S. Census Bureau provides information that tells the story of our changing economy. The Economic 

Indicators, Economic Census and our quarterly and annual economic surveys give Federal, state, and local 

governments, policy makers, and business and community leaders the information needed to make 

informed decisions that shape our economy. 

Issues of Interest to Data Users

1. Accessing Data from the U.S. Census Bureau

• USA Trade Online 

USA Trade Online is a dynamic data tool that gives users access to current and cumulative 

U.S. export and import data. With multiple data sets and capabilities, USA Trade Online can 

assist different types of customers from a wide range of industries and fields. This tool offers 

data by Harmonized System, North America Industry Classification System (NAICS), and the 

Department of Agriculture code. This powerful software allows users to create customized 

reports and colorful charts detailing international trade data at different levels. 

https://usatrade.census.gov/

• Monthly Trade Data in the Census Data API 

The U.S. Census Bureau has detailed monthly international trade data in its Application 

Programming Interface (API). The Census Data API has international trade data from 2013 to 

present. The international trade statistics provide monthly and cumulative year-to-date export 

and import totals with multiple layers of detail. The statistics also include two datasets with 

U.S. exports and imports by Department of Agriculture code. 

The Application Programming Interface provides researchers and developers free access to its 

demographic and economic data.

https://census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/international-trade.html

 

• Global Marker Finder (GMF) 

The Global Market Finder is an interactive data visualization tool that paints a picture of the 

export market for a particular commodity. The user just needs to select the Schedule B code 

they are interested in and the tool will display all the countries that the U.S. exports to, shows 

value by method of transportation, and unit price. Users can drill down to specific countries 

and download the data that they have pulled. 

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/export-markets.html
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• Census Business Builder

The Census Business Builder (CBB) is a suite of services that provide selected demographic 

and economic data from the Census Bureau tailored to specific types of users in a simple to 

access and use format. The CBB includes: 

• Demographic, socioeconomic, and housing data from the American Community 

Survey

• Business data from the County Business Patterns, Non-employer Statistics, Economic

Census, and Survey of Business Owners 

• Trade data on total imports and exports, broken out by mode of transportation (Air & 

Vessel), for selected three- and four-digit agriculture, mining, and manufacturing 

NAICS codes at the national and state level. 

• Building Permits data at the county and place level 

In addition, it provides Agriculture data from the Census of Agriculture (USDA).

https://www.census.gov/data/data-tools/cbb.html

2. Principal Economic Indicators

The U.S. Census Bureau’s Economic Indicators keep the world informed by providing the first 

official measures of the U.S. economy. Our Economic Indicator surveys provide monthly and 

quarterly data that are timely, reliable, and offer comprehensive measures of the U.S. economy. 

These surveys produce a variety of statistics covering construction, housing, international trade, 

retail trade, wholesale trade, services, and manufacturing. The survey data provide measures of 

economic activity that allow analysis of economic performance and inform business investment 

and policy decisions. The data can be accessed via the Economic Indicator Briefing Room and the 

Economic Indicator Database. 

• Economic Indicator Briefing Room

The Economic Indicator Briefing Room web site provides access to the latest data, full release 

reports, historical data, and time series and trend charts. census.gov/economic-indicators

• Economic Indicator Database

Select an economic indicator and customize your data selection. Ability to download the data 

to a spreadsheet and create your own time series charts. census.gov/econ/currentdata

• For questions regarding Economic Indicators, please contact:

Ms. Stephanie Studds, Chief

Economic Indicators Division

U.S. Census Bureau

Room 7K154

Washington, DC 20233-6010

Phone: (301) 763-2633

Email: Stephanie.Lee.Studds@census.gov
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3. International Trade

Each month, the U.S. Census Bureau releases the U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services

(FT900) report, which is one of the principal economic indicators for the United States. This report 

can be found along with other information on our website census.gov/trade.

Webinars are archived at: https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/outreach/index.html.

• 15 CFR PART 30 — Foreign Trade Regulations

For information on the FTR and filing requirements, please email 

emd.askregs@census.gov or use the International Trade Helpline number, 1-800-549-0595 

and select option 3.

• Questionable data should be brought to our attention as soon as possible. Potential data 

errors caught early are easier to verify and improve the quality of data going forward. To 

request data verification, please contact Mr. Gregory Kondilas,

(gregory.kondilas@census.gov), Chief of our International Trade Indicator Micro Analysis 

Branch.

4. Other Economic Data from the U.S. Census Bureau

The Census Bureau produces economic data across the entire economy on a monthly, quarterly, 

yearly, and five-year basis, including industries related to agriculture. These industries can include: 

o NAICS 113 Forestry and Logging 

o NAICS 114 Fishing, Hunting and Trapping 

o NAICS 115 Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry 

o NAICS 311 Food Manufacturing 

o NAICS 4244 Grocery and Related Product Merchant Wholesalers 

o NAICS 4245 Farm Product Raw Material Merchant Wholesalers 

o NAICS 445 Food and Beverage Stores 

• COVID-19 Data Hub

The U.S. Census Bureau’s COVID-19 Hub contains demographic and economic data designed 

to help guide decision-making related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The interactive platform 

includes key demographic data from the American Community Survey and key data on 

businesses with one or more paid employees from the County Business Patterns program. In 

addition, the COVID-19 Data Hub brings together data from multiple Federal agencies 

including the USDA’s Emergency Food Assistance Program and private sector organizations. 

The hub was built in collaboration with ESRI and leverages many features of the ArcGIS 

platform and solution templates.

https://covid19.census.gov/
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