AgricultureID

National Agricultural Statistics Service

NASS

The statistical agency of the United States Department of Agriculture. It publishes official United States agricultural statistics and operates Quick Stats, a searchable database of the agricultural data it publishes, queryable by commodity, location and time period.

Jurisdiction
United States
Government level
Federal
Authority type
Statistics authority
Status
Active

Visit the official websitehttps://www.nass.usda.gov

Responsibilities

Each item below is recorded from the authority’s own published material, not inferred from its name.

  • Agricultural statisticsStatutory

    Publishes official United States agricultural statistics, organised by state and by subject including crops and plants, livestock, economics and prices, environmental and demographic data.

    Source: USDA NASS — National Agricultural Statistics Service

  • Crops

    Publishes crop and plant statistics as a named subject area.

    Source: USDA NASS — National Agricultural Statistics Service

  • Livestock

    Publishes livestock statistics as a named subject area.

    Source: USDA NASS — National Agricultural Statistics Service

Registries and datasets

  • Quick Statsdataset

    Searchable database of NASS-published agricultural data, queryable by commodity, location or time period.

Registries and databases

Official systems this authority administers, as recorded in the AgricultureID registry corpus.

All official registries

Why this body is recorded

Official name of the body responsible in United States.

Official source
Source page
https://www.nass.usda.gov/About_NASS/index.php
What the source says
“National Agricultural Statistics Service”(official name)
Standing
Verified against the sourcelast verified 2026-08-19
  • NASS is an agency within the United States Department of Agriculture; this record describes the agency, not the parent department.

Evidence shows what an official source published and what AgricultureID made of it. The two are always shown separately: quoted text is the source’s own, and a normalised value is AgricultureID’s vocabulary, not a quotation.

Sources and verification

  • Official nass.usda.gov page resolved with HTTP 200, identifying the agency as the National Agricultural Statistics Service of the United States Department of Agriculture and describing Quick Stats as “the most comprehensive tool for accessing agricultural data published by NASS”, with statistics browsable by state and by subject.

    Verified 2026-08-19 against https://www.nass.usda.gov/About_NASS/index.php · domain classification: Official subdomain

Important limitations

  • NASS is an agency within the United States Department of Agriculture; this record describes the agency, not the parent department.

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