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The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is the primary statistical agency for USDA. Each year NASS publishes over 400 reports based on data collected from farmers across the Northeast and the U.S. If you receive a survey from NASS and need assistance, please call the NASS Northeastern Regional field office at 1-(800) 498-1518.
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If you are knowledgeable about crops across your county and have Internet access, you qualify to be a weekly crop reporter. It only takes about 10-15 minutes each week to alert USDA of the crop situation in your county using the Internet report form. We will use that information to generate the weekly report of Crop Conditions across
the Northeastern Region.
This report is issued weekly during the growing season, April to November, and lists planting, fruiting, and harvesting progress and overall condition of selected crops in major producing states.
You can help alert USDA about crop progress and unusual crop conditions during the growing seasons. Instead of waiting until the crop is in, you can give us an early warning of crop situations that may need our attention for possible assistance.
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Pennsylvania annual milk production
Pennsylvania's milk cows in 2024 numbered 465,000 head, down 1,000 from 2023. The annual production of milk for Pennsylvania during 2024 was 9.78 billion pounds, down .8% from 2023. Production per cow in Pennsylvania averaged 21,037 pounds for 2024, down 120 pounds from 2023.
This report was released on Feb. 14. A farm is "any place from which $1,000 or more of agricultural products were produced and sold, or normally would have been sold, during the year." Government payments are included in sales. Ranches, institutional farms, experimental and research farms, and Indian Reservations are included as farms. Places with the entire acreage enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), Wetlands Reserve Programs (WRP), and other government conservation programs are counted as farms.
The definition of a farm was first established in 1850 and has changed nine times since. The current definition was first used for the 1974 Census.
The number of farms in Pennsylvania for 2024 is estimated at 48,800 farms, down 200 from 2023. Total land in farms is estimated at 7.10 million acres, unchanged from 2023. The average farm size for 2024 is 145 acres, the same as last year.