Research Guides: How to Find Statistics: Agriculture Stats

U.S. Agriculture Crop & Livestock Data (USDA-NASS)

The National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) is one of the main statistical gathering units of the USDA, and publishes U.S., state, and county level agricultural statistics for many commodities and data series. It covers data on crop production, livestock production, costs and prices, demographics, and environmental aspects of agriculture. Data can be retrieved by commodity, watershed, state, county, nationally, and by year.

U.S. Crop Production (USDA-NASS)

The USDA Crop Production Annual Summary contains annual U.S. data for acreage, yield, and production by crop. It also includes data from the previous two years for each crop. Ranges from grains & hays (e.g. corn, oats, wheat), oil seeds (e.g. canola, soybean, sunflower), cotton, tobacco, sugar crops, dry beans, peas & lentils, potatoes & miscellaneous crops.

Here is an example of annual crop production reports for Wheat (1886 to the present).

Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) (United Nations Statistics)

FAOSTAT
The FAO Statistical Database is an on-line multilingual database currently containing over 1 million time-series records from over 210 countries and territories covering statistics on agriculture, nutrition, fisheries, forestry, food aid, land use and population.
FAOSTAT-Agriculture
Provides statistics on crops, livestock, irrigation, land use, fertilizer, pesticide consumption, and agricultural machinery.
AQUASTAT
AQUASTAT is FAO's global information system of water and agriculture developed by the Land and Water Development Division of FAO. AQUASTAT provides users with comprehensive statistics on the state of agricultural water management across the world, with emphasis on developing countries and countries in transition.
FAOSTAT-Fisheries
Provides statistics on fish production and primary products.
FAOSTAT-Forestry
Provides statistics on imports and exports of woods and paper.
Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics
The FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department provides advice and objective information to Members to help promote responsible aquaculture and fisheries. To fulfil this role, the Department compiles, analyses and disseminates fishery data, structured within data collections.
Forestry Country Profiles
Forestry Country Profiles contain statistics on forest and forestry issues on a country by country basis including forest cover, plantations, volume and biomass and fires.
CountrySTAT
A national statistical information system for food and agriculture. CountrySTAT harmonizes and integrates data on food and agriculture coming from different sources. Through a core database, policy makers and researchers can group data across thematic areas -- such as production, trade and consumption -- in order to study relationships and processes.
GLIPHA
The Global Livestock Production and Health Atlas (GLiPHA), is a user-friendly, highly interactive electronic atlas using the Key Indicator Display System (KIDS) developed by FAO. The atlas provides a scaleable overview of spatial and temporal variation of quantitative information related to animal production and health through the combination of maps, tables and charts.
PAAT Information system
The PAAT secretariat combines the forces of FAO, WHO, IAEA, and OAU/IBAR to promote integrated trypanosomiasis control through coordinated international action. The ultimate goal is to improve food security and sustainable agricultural and rural development.
TERRASTAT
Land resource potential and constraints statistics at country and regional level. Statistics are based on various small scale maps and inventories that were not always up to date, reliable or both.

These are statistical resources by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.

Commercial Fish Caught (PacFin)

Commercial Landed Catch: Metric Tons, Revenue, Price/Pound (1981-present) (Pacific Northwest)
Washington, Oregon and California (W-O-C) All Species Report 307. Commercial Landed Catch: Metric Tons, Revenue, Price/Pound
Note: All reports are formatted for 132 columns.
Fishery and Aquaculture Statistics (International)
The FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department provides advice and objective information to Members to help promote responsible aquaculture and fisheries. To fulfil this role, the Department compiles, analyses and disseminates fishery data, structured within data collections.
Oregon Historic Salmon Fishery (Commercial Troll & Sport)
Includes: Recreational Selective Coho Season Updates, Current Year to Date Salmon Catch and Effort Estimates, Historic Recreational Fishery, and Historic Commercial Troll Salmon Fishery.

International Agriculture Crop & Livestock Data (FAOSTAT)

FAOSTAT provides time-series and cross sectional international data from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations relating to food and agriculture for some 200 countries. It will soon support a national version, CountrySTAT, for a number of target countries, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa.

Major contents include: commodities by country, countries by commodities, countries ranked in the world by commodity, food production, trade, food supply, supply utilization accounts/food balance domain (e.g. production, trade, feed & seed, waste, other utilization, consumption, quantities, calories, proteins, fats), food security, food prices, resources, forestry, fisheries, country data.

How to Find Statistics

U.S. Agriculture Crop & Livestock Data (USDA-NASS)

U.S. Crop Production (USDA-NASS)

Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) (United Nations Statistics)

Commercial Fish Caught (PacFin)

International Agriculture Crop & Livestock Data (FAOSTAT)

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