Washington. DC
August 3, 2009
Issued August 3, 2009 by the
Agricultural Statistics Board of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, National
Agricultural Statistics Service. For information, contact
Chris Messer at (202) 690-8747.
The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) expanded the
amount of information available from the 2007 Census of
Agriculture by providing select data at the ZIP code level. The
ZIP code-level data can be accessed online through NASS’s Census
statistics database, Quick Stats.
To conduct the 2007 Census of Agriculture, NASS mailed a Census
form to all known and potential farm operators in the United
States. In most cases, producers’ mailing addresses were the
same as the location of their operation. Therefore, the vast
majority of farms were tabulated in the ZIP codes where they are
located. However, in some instances, the operator's farm was
located outside the mailed ZIP code. Consequently, these farms
are not counted in the ZIP codes of their physical location.
The information published is limited to farm counts for select
items only and ZIP codes with no reported farms in the 2007
Census are not included. For more information about the Census
or to access the QuickStats application, visit
www.agcensus.usda.gov.
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