Issued May 14, 2007 by the National Agricultural Statistics Service, Agricultural Statistics Board, U.S. Department of Agriculture. For information, contact Ty Kalaus at (202) 720-9526.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will issue a special corn objective yield report on May 18, 2007, titled Corn Objective Yield Survey Data, 1992-2006. This report will provide information on the types of data collected from the corn objective yield surveys and how they relate to the Agricultural Statistics Board yield estimates. The information is being provided to data users to aid in understanding the corn objective yield program and to provide a historical perspective of the changes that have occurred in the objective yield data over the last 15 years.

All NASS reports are available on the NASS web site: www.nass.usda.gov.