U.S. Department of Agriculture
The Official Facts Representing All U.S. Producers and Commodities
Price: $50 Order number: AC-02-CD1 Media type: CD
Printed Publications by State are also available.
The U. S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released the final data from the 2002 Census of Agriculture. The Census of Agriculture 2002 provides consistent and detailed production, economic, demographic and environmental data including facts on number and type of farms, land use, value of sales and government payments, production expenses, hired labor, computer and Internet use, livestock and poultry inventory and sales, aquaculture, irrigation, crop acreage and production, gender and race of operator, production contracts, number of people in farm households, tenure of operator, chemical use, value of land and buildings, production contracts, organic acreage and a myriad of other topics.
First time census information available on:
Census of Agricultural History, 2002. Volume 2. -- Available Spring 2006