Topic - National Agricultural Statistics Service

The National Agricultural Statistics Service or NASS is the statistical branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture[http://www.usda.gov]. NASS has 46 field offices throughout the United States and Puerto Rico and a headquarters unit in Washington, D.C.. NASS conducts hundreds of surveys and issues nearly 500 national reports each year on issues including agricultural production, economics, demographics and the environment. NASS also conducts the Census of Agriculture every five years. - Source: Wikipedia