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Food Dialogues: Farmers & Ranchers Committed to Continuous Improvement of How We Grow & Raise Food. NASS - Quick Stats. Keyword Search Hints: The keyword search feature allows you to search using any word.

NASS - Quick Stats

For any keyword that you enter, all matching items will be returned (i.e. a search for "Corn" will yield results for Corn, Sweet Corn, and Popcorn). Once you have initiated a search by keyword, you can then proceed to limit by any other available Selections. If you enter two or more keywords, the results will include entries for all entered keywords. Example: a search for "apple orange" will yield results for any items containing the word orange OR the word apple. The keyword search is not case sensitive. Search is currently only enabled for commodities. Close(X) Quick Stats Lite (Beta) Introducing our new, guided interface to the Quick Stats 2.0 database!

We are making further improvements to Quick Stats Lite which will be rolled out periodically over the next few months. Quick Stats 2.0 Quick Stats 2.0 is the most comprehensive tool for accessing agricultural data published by NASS. Data By Subject. U.S. Department of Agriculture. Agencies and Offices A list of all Agencies and Offices within USDA Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services Commodity, credit, conservation, disaster, emergency assistance programs...

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services Dietary guidance, nutrition policy coordination, nutrition education... Food Safety Meat, poultry, and egg inspection, food recalls, food labeling, packaging... Marketing and Regulatory Programs Organic program, animal and plant health, grain inspection... Natural Resources and Environment Forestry, conservation, damage prevention, land management, sustainable land management... NAIP Imagery. What is NAIP?

NAIP Imagery

The National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) acquires aerial imagery during the agricultural growing seasons in the continental U.S. A primary goal of the NAIP program is to make digital ortho photography available to governmental agencies and the public within a year of acquisition. NAIP is administered by the USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA) through the Aerial Photography Field Office in Salt Lake City. This "leaf-on" imagery is used as a base layer for GIS programs in FSA's County Service Centers, and is used to maintain the Common Land Unit (CLU) boundaries.

How can NAIP be used? NAIP is used by many non-FSA public and private sector customers for a wide variety of projects. When is NAIP acquired? NAIP projects are contracted each year based upon available funding and the FSA imagery acquisition cycle. What are NAIP Specifications? All imagery is inspected for horizontal accuracy and tonal quality. DTN/The Progressive Farmer. Help: Searching. Help: Searching Our search engine quickly and easily puts information at your fingertips.

Help: Searching

The engine allows you to choose just how broad, or narrow, you would like your search to be. The search covers nearly 2500 reports and datasets from the economics agencies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Quick Search Special Query Terms: • Boolean AND Search--the default search is an "AND" search, so there is no need to add that operator. Advanced Search The Advanced Search offers the same functionality as the Basic Search, but it also provides additional options for reducing the total number of search results.

Limit your results with extra search options: • Return results from a specific USDA agency: ERS, FAS, NASS, WAOB, or AMS. • Return results where specified keywords and phrases occur in the title, description or keywords, or just in the title of the page.. Choose how your search results display: • Sort the results by relevance or by date. Command Line Searching. AgEcon Search: Home. International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas. The International Centre for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) (founded 1977) is an agroforestry institution that is based in Aleppo in Syria.

International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas

It is one of sixteen global agricultural research centres which makes up the global network known as the CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research). The Centre conducts research in agriculture in the desert regions of the Middle East and the Sahara desert of Northern-Central Africa to develop a more sustainable and productive land use and to reduce the impacts of desertification. It is currently chaired by Dr Guido Gryseels External links[edit] Official website - ICARDA References[edit] Coordinates: