ASB Notice

USDA’s NASS to Release Results of the 2014 and 2015 Organic Certifier Survey

Issued Dec. 12, 2016 by the Agricultural Statistics Board of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service. For more information contact Adam Cline at (202) 690-8818 or adam.cline@nass.usda.gov.

The National Agricultural Statistics Service’s Agricultural Statistics Board will release the results of the 2014 and 2015 Organic Certifier Survey at Noon Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016. NASS collected data on acreage and livestock data for years 2014 and 2015 from USDA-accredited organic certifying agents in the United States. Information to be published includes the number of certified organic operations along with the number of acres certified for various crops, and the reported livestock and poultry certified as organic. The report will be available at www.nass.usda.gov/Surveys/Guide_to_NASS_Surveys/Organic_Production.

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