USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service will survey farmland owners to measure financial impacts and challenges of land ownership.
Landowners should receive the survey form by the end of this month. More than 80,000 farmland owners and producers across the United States will receive the forms, titled Tenure, Ownership and Transition of Agricultural land, or TOTAL.
Jay Johnson, Director of NASS’ Census and Survey Division, says the latest Census of Agriculture helped “us determine that more than 350 million acres of farmland in the United States are rented or leased, but it has been more than a decade since we spoke to individuals who own that land.”
NASS will publish results of the TOTAL survey in its Quick Stats database in August 2015.
