Representatives of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) began knocking on doors and making phone calls to approximately 3,500 agricultural-related operations in Oklahoma beginning the last week in May, seeking producer input for crop acreage, on-farm grain storage and livestock inventories.
These data will all be combined to produce the June Acreage report and the June Grain Stocks report, both issued on June 30th for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Acreage report will provide an update to the Prospective Plantings Report that was issued on March 31, 2017.
USDA-NASS uses two components in this data collection effort; one is a complete enumeration of 337 land segments across the State where field boundaries are defined by information provided by producers; those land uses are recorded for each field boundary so that every acre within the land segment is accounted in the total segment.
The conjunctive part of the project is the “list” portion of the survey, where a sample of producers are contacted during this same time period, and asked identical questions, but on a whole-farm basis instead of a field level. When put together, this producer reported data provide the indications that allow USDA-NASS to prepare State-level estimates, and in turn become part of the national estimates.
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