USDA to conduct nationwide survey

Beginning this Saturday, February 26 and lasting until about mid March, USDA will conduct a survey of nearly 77,000 farm operations across the country. Joe Prusacki with the USDA statistics service says the survey will result in a better idea of what farmers are intending to plant this year.

“We’ll ask farm operators how many acres of, and then you pick the commodity, corn do you intend to plant this year, soybeans do you intend to plant this year, cotton, rice, all the spring planted crops,” said Prusacki.

Once the information is collected, Prusacki says USDA will analyze it and then share it with the world when they release the Prospective Plantings Report on March 31.