USDA NASS Quick Stats
U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service
In a RepVector build, this dataset reports agricultural and land-use conditions for a territory.
What this dataset is
County- and state-level U.S. agricultural survey and census data: acres planted and harvested, production volumes, yields, livestock inventories, and prices received for major commodities. The primary federal source for measuring local farming activity and rural market conditions. It is published by U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service and can be queried at county and state level, refreshed annual (with some monthly survey releases). Each row is an aggregate statistic for a geography, so results describe a market as a whole rather than a single account.
Why it is useful
- Characterises rural economies that standard business statistics under-describe.
- Adds employment-base context in counties dominated by agriculture.
Questions it helps answer
- What drives the economic base of this rural market?
How different verticals use it
RepVector is vertical-agnostic: this dataset is selected by what your question asks for, not by industry. These are common ways teams put it to work.
Reads production structure and scale across rural territories.
Sizes equipment and input demand in farming counties.
Anticipates seasonal freight volume from commodity output.
Grounds ag-lending exposure in published production data.
How RepVector uses it
- You describe a market in plain language. The geography resolver turns the place you named into the exact identifiers this dataset needs — city to county to state, plus DMA where relevant — so a query at county runs without you knowing any codes.
- The planner selects USDA NASS Quick Stats only when your question matches what it actually reports. It is never included to pad a result.
- Returned rows are normalised into the shared metric layer, so figures from U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service line up with every other source in the same dashboard instead of sitting in an isolated table.
- Quality checks score coverage and recency. If U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service suppresses or omits a value for your geography, the gap is reported as a gap — nothing is estimated or filled in.
- The result renders as charts, KPIs and, where the rows are entities, prioritised targets you can export to PDF, Excel, CSV or JSON.
What it does not tell you
- Collected on multi-year cycles, so it describes structure rather than current conditions.
How it fits with the rest of the catalog
Agricultural structure explains rural economies that income and establishment data alone flatten. RepVector queries every selected dataset against the same resolved geography and time window, then normalises the results into one metric layer so they can be charted side by side. These datasets are the most common companions to USDA NASS Quick Stats:
Common questions
What does USDA NASS Quick Stats contain?
County- and state-level U.S. agricultural survey and census data: acres planted and harvested, production volumes, yields, livestock inventories, and prices received for major commodities. The primary federal source for measuring local farming activity and rural market conditions. It is published by U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service at county and state grain.
How often is it refreshed?
U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service publishes on a annual (with some monthly survey releases) cycle. RepVector re-reads the source on that cadence and keeps every prior capture, so you can see what changed.
Do I need an account to use it?
No. Browsing the catalog and the free lookup tools needs no account. Running a full market build across every county in a territory is the paid product.
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