When USDA asks for info, fewer farmers answer
The Agriculture Department faces a vexing problem: Its crop reports can move markets but fewer and fewer farmers are taking part in the surveys that assure the USDA estimates are accurate. “From response rates of 80-85 percent in the early 1990s, rates have fallen below 60 percent in some cases,” write USDA chief economist Robert… » Read More
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