The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Services (NASS) has entered an agreement with the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) to begin providing in-season district-level estimates on acreage, yield and production for wheat, corn, cotton and sorghum crops in the state.
Typically, these estimates are used throughout the industry to help with resource management planning, transport decisions and marketing strategies.
“Texas is a large and diverse agricultural state,” said Johnie Reed, president of Plains Cotton Growers, Inc. “The ability to obtain district and county wide information derived from state data through this cooperative agreement is important to the agriculture industry. It provides the agriculture industry with more accurate information on planted and harvested acres, in addition to production and yield, which in many instances is utilized in federal farm programs and marketing and decision aid tools for producers. Plains Cotton Growers greatly appreciates this effort by TDA and USDA-NASS.”
Texas producers rely on in-season reporting, as it strengthens the reliability of current crop data and trends. Going forward, the electronic report will be posted on the Texas and Oklahoma USDA-NASS websites, and it will become a part of the monthly Crop Production Report.
The agreement between the USDA-NASS and TDA was signed at the TDA’s headquarters in Austin, Tx., by Commissioner Sid Miller and USDA-NASS Southern Plains Regional Field Office Director Wilbert Hundl, Jr.