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Lance Honig, chair of the Agricultural Statistics Board at NASS, opened the briefing, identified Robert Bonney (USDA undersecretary for farm production and conservation, secretary designate) and Dr. Seth Meyer (USDA chief economist) as guests, and framed the briefing’s audience (secretary of agriculture and USDA policy officials).
The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) held a briefing for USDA policy officials to present June acreage, grain stocks and rice stocks estimates, outlining sampling methods, headline acreage totals (315,000,000 principal crop acres) and notable crop changes such as corn, soybeans, cotton, and various specialty crops. NASS also reviewed on‑ and off‑farm stocks showing year‑over‑year increases for several major crops and announced upcoming reports and a social media Q&A.
