The primary purpose is to provide adequate, accurate, and timely information concerning crops and livestock for crop and livestock producers. This information is also of value to handlers and consumers of farm products, and to those who provide products and services needed by farmers; hence, it is of direct or indirect value to nearly everyone in the United States.

Excerpt from The Crop and Livestock Reporting Service of the United States With the gradual expansion of the service, the field offices have been placed under the supervision of well trained, experienced, agricultural statisticians, ade quate technical and clerical assistants have been obtained, and modern statistical equipment has been provided, so that the raw data secured from the schedules can be competently collated and analyzed in the field. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Statistical Reporting Service is the main fact-gathering agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This organization for collecting and disseminating current primary data on agriculture has been in operation for more than 100 years. Although the name of the organization has changed several times and its job has become bigger, its major objective has remained the same, which is to report the basic statistical facts of the nation's agriculture.