Improving crop estimates by integrating multiple data sources / Mary Ellen Bock and Nancy J. Kirkendall, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bock, M. E. (Mary Ellen), editor.

Kirkendall, Nancy J., editor.

Committee on National Statistics.

Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agricultural estimating and reporting--United States.

Agricultural estimating and reporting.

Agricultural estimating and reporting--United States--Information resources.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (136 pages) : illustrations (some color), tables, maps

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press, 2017.

Summary:

The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is the primary statistical data collection agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). NASS conducts hundreds of surveys each year and prepares reports covering virtually every aspect of U.S. agriculture. Among the small-area estimates produced by NASS are county-level estimates for crops (planted acres, harvested acres, production, and yield by commodity) and for cash rental rates for irrigated cropland, nonirrigated cropland, and permanent pastureland. Key users of these county-level estimates include USDA's Farm Services Agency (FSA) and Risk Management Agency (RMA), which use the estimates as part of their processes for distributing farm subsidies and providing farm insurance, respectively. Improving Crop Estimates by Integrating Multiple Data Sources assesses county-level crop and cash rents estimates, and offers recommendations on methods for integrating data sources to provide more precise county-level estimates of acreage and yield for major crops and of cash rents by land use. This report considers technical issues involved in using the available data sources, such as methods for integrating the data, the assumptions underpinning the use of each source, the robustness of the resulting estimates, and the properties of desirable estimates of uncertainty.

Contents:

A vision of NASS in 2025

Multiple data sources for crops : challenges and opportunities

Sources of data for cash rents

Implementing the vision and beyond.

Notes:

"Panel on Methods for Integrating Multiple Data Sources to Improve Crop Estimates."

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 30, 2018).

ISBN:

9780309465328

030946532X

9780309465304

0309465303