Agricultural Statistics 2013

NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRODUCT-- OVERSTOCK SALE-- Significantly reduced list price  Agricultural Statistics is published each year to meet the diverse need for a reliable reference book

on agricultural production, supplies, consumption, facilities, costs, and returns. Its tables of annual

data cover a wide variety of facts in forms suited to most common use.

The historical series in this volume have been generally limited to data beginning with 2001 or

later.

Foreign agricultural trade statistics include Government as well as non-Government shipments of merchandise from the United States and Territories to foreign countries. They do not include U.S. shipments to the U.S. Armed Forces abroad for their own use or shipments between the States and U.S. Territories. The world summaries of production and trade of major farm products are prepared by the U.S. Department of Agriculture from reports of the U.S. Department of Commerce, official statistics of foreign governments, other foreign source materials, reports of U.S. Agricultural Attache and Foreign Service Officers, and the result of office research.

Statistics presented in many of the tables represent actual counts of the items covered. Most of

the statistics relating to foreign trade and to Government programs, such as numbers and amounts

of loans made to farmers, and amounts of loans made by the Commodity Credit Corporation, etc.,

are data of this type. A large number of other tables, however, contain data that are estimates made

by the Department of Agriculture.

The estimates for crops, livestock, and poultry made by the U.S. Department of Agriculture are

prepared mainly to give timely current State and national totals and averages. They are based on

data obtained by sample surveys of farmers and of people who do business with farmers. The survey

data are supplemented by information from the Censuses of Agriculture taken every five years and

check data from various sources. Being estimates, they are subject to revision as more data become

available from commercial or Government sources. Unless otherwise indicated, the totals for the

United States shown in the various tables on area, production, numbers, price, value, supplies, and

disposition are based on official Department estimates. They exclude States for which no official estimates are compiled.

    Extensive table data include statistics of the following: ·      
• Grain and Feed ·        * Cotton, Tobacco, Sugar Crops, and Honey ·        * Oilseeds, Fats, and Oils ·        * Vegetables and Melons ·        * Hay, Seeds, and Minor Field Crops ·        * Cattle, Hogs, and Sheep ·        * Dairy and Poultry ·        * Insurance, Credit & Cooperatives ·        * Agricultural Conservation & Forestry ·        * Consumption & Family Living ·        * Fertilizers & Pesticides ·        * Miscellaneous Agricultural Statistics such as Foreign Agricultural Trade Statistics including exports, fisheries and more.