This work examines the United States Department of Agriculture's reporting services which covers the entire breadth of agriculture.

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.