ASB Notice

NASS Cancels Puerto Rico Various Agricultural Statistics 2012 Summary

Issued April 22, 2013 by the Agricultural Statistics Board of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service. For more information contact Joseph Prusacki at (202) 720-3896.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will not publish the Puerto Rico Various Agricultural Statistics 2012 Summary,scheduled for April 29 at 3:00 p.m. EDT, due to changes in the availability of the data from the Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture. In the past, NASS released this annual publication to provide data on various livestock and crop commodities. The report also provided slaughter data and number of farms, land in farms, and number of farms by economic size class in Puerto Rico.

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