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Agricultural Statistics (USDA, annual)
Agricultural Statistics is published each year to meet the diverse need for a reliable reference book on agricultural production, supplies, consumption, facilities, costs, and returns.
Agricultural Statistics: A Historical Timeline (NASS, USDA)
The story of agricultural statistics in the United States spans from the late 18th century to the present day. This history is separated into five periods important to the evolution of agricultural statistics and the present-day National Agricultural Statistics Service.
National Agricultural Statistics Service (USDA)
The USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) conducts hundreds of surveys every year and prepares reports covering virtually every aspect of U.S. agriculture. Production and supplies of food and fiber, prices paid and received by farmers, farm labor and wages, farm finances, chemical use, and changes in the demographics of U.S. producers are only a few examples.
U.S. Census of Agriculture (USDA)
The Census of Agriculture is a complete count of U.S. farms and ranches and the people who operate them. Even small plots of land - whether rural or urban - growing fruit, vegetables or some food animals count if $1,000 or more of such products were raised and sold, or normally would have been sold, during the Census year. The Census of Agriculture, taken only once every five years, looks at land use and ownership, operator characteristics, production practices, income and expenditures.
Farmland Information Center
Need statistics to make the case for farmland protection? Find frequently requested data from AFT's Farms Under Threat: The State of America's Farmland, the National Resources Inventory, the Census of Agriculture, and Farmland Information Center surveys of purchase of agricultural conservation easement programs. Or, follow links to additional information and data sources.
Economics, Statistics and Market Information System (USDA)
The USDA Economics, Statistics and Market Information System (ESMIS) contains over 2,100 publications from five agencies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). These materials cover U.S. and international agriculture and related topics. Mann Library at Cornell University developed and maintains this site.
Farm Subsidy Database (Environmental Working Group)
The database tracks $478 billion in farm subsidies from commodity, crop insurance, disaster programs and conservation payments paid between 1995 and 2021.
The Morrow Plots
The Morrow Plots at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are the longest-running continuous experimental plots in the Americas. In continuous operation since 1876, the plots were established to explore the impact of crop rotation and soil treatment on corn crop yields. In 2018, The Morrow Plots Data Curation Working Group began to identify, collect and curate the various data records created over the history of the experiment. The resulting data table published here includes planting, treatment and yield data for the Morrow Plots since 1888.
