Agricultural Stats

A librarian friend of mine, who used to work at the NYS Small Business Development Center, e-mailed me Starting an Agriculture Business. I mention it here because the early pages discuss the great import of agriculture in the Empire State, a fact I suspect people from other parts of the country would be surprised by.

Farms, farms, everywhere...

Just had a request for data that the Census USED to collect but has now been taken over by the Department of Agriculture and their National Agriculture Statistical Service. One of the handy things I found while searching for the state of farms in our counties was a pdf file listing some basic data (sort of like our Census Primary Profiles) for each county in New York. Their website is http://www.nass.usda.gov/index.asp .

The Agriculture Census data is located at http://www.nass.usda.gov/Census_of_Agriculture/index.asp .