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NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRODUCT-- OVERSTOCK SALE-- Significantly reduced list price Agricultural Statistics is published each year to meet the diverse need for a reliable reference book on agricultural production, supplies, consumption, facilities, costs, and returns. Its tables of annualdata cover a wide variety of facts in forms suited to most common use. The historical series in this volume have been generally limited to data beginning with 2001 orlater.Foreign agricultural trade statistics include Government as well as non-Government shipments of merchandise from the United States and Territories to foreign countries. They do not include U.S. shipments to the U.S. Armed Forces abroad for their own use or shipments between the States and U.S. Territories. The world summaries of production and trade of major farm products are prepared by the U.S. Department of Agriculture from reports of the U.S. Department of Commerce, official statistics of foreign governments, other foreign source materials, reports of U.S. Agricultural Attache and Foreign Service Officers, and the result of office research.Statistics presented in many of the tables represent actual counts of the items covered. Most ofthe statistics relating to foreign trade and to Government programs, such as numbers and amountsof loans made to farmers, and amounts of loans made by the Commodity Credit Corporation, etc., are data of this type. A large number of other tables, however, contain data that are estimates madeby the Department of Agriculture.The estimates for crops, livestock, and poultry made by the U.S. Department of Agriculture areprepared mainly to give timely current State and national totals and averages. They are based ondata obtained by sample surveys of farmers and of people who do business with farmers. The surveydata are supplemented by information from the Censuses of Agriculture taken every five years andcheck data from various sources. Being estimates, they are subject to revision as more data becomeavailable from commercial or Government sources. Unless otherwise indicated, the totals for theUnited States shown in the various tables on area, production, numbers, price, value, supplies, anddisposition are based on official Department estimates. They exclude States for which no official estimates are compiled. Extensive table data include statistics of the following: - * Grain and Feed - * Cotton, Tobacco, Sugar Crops, and Honey - * Oilseeds, Fats, and Oils - * Vegetables and Melons - * Hay, Seeds, and Minor Field Crops - * Cattle, Hogs, and Sheep - * Dairy and Poultry - * Insurance, Credit & Cooperatives - * Agricultural Conservation & Forestry - * Consumption & Family Living - * Fertilizers & Pesticides - * Miscellaneous Agricultural Statistics such as Foreign Agricultural Trade Statistics including exports, fisheries and more.

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