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USDA to Conduct Survey on Cattle Inventories
Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:31:41 CDT
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will conduct its semi-annual Cattle Survey for July 1 inventory. The agency will ask producers about their beef and dairy cattle inventories, calf crop and cattle on feed operations. NASS will publish the resulting statistics in the semi-annual Cattle report issued on July 20.
Producers should receive the survey questionnaire in late June and can respond via the Internet as well as by mail or fax. Those who do not respond by one of those ways will have the opportunity for a telephone or personal interview.
"In Oklahoma, we will contact approximately 200 of the larger beef and dairy cattle operations," said Wilbert Hundl, Jr, Director of the NASS Oklahoma Field Office. "The semi-annual surveys enable NASS to provide timely, accurate and unbiased data that all sectors of the U.S. beef industry can use."
"Once published, the information will help producers determine production and marketing strategies, plan purchases, and plan for capital investments," he explained. Processors, warehouse and storage companies along with the transportation sector rely on the reports to anticipate future volume.
Hundl noted that, as is the case with all NASS surveys, information provided by respondents is confidential by Federal law. "NASS safeguards the privacy of all responses and publishes only state- and national-level data, ensuring that no individual producer or operation can be identified," he said.
NASS will publish survey results in the semi-annual Cattle report on July 20. These and all NASS reports are available online at www.nass.usda.gov. For more information, call the NASS Oklahoma Field Office at (888) 525-9226.
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