USDA boosts survey numbers, but farmer response rates still lag

The USDA sent out more farmer surveys for the June acreage report, but Seth Meyer with MU’s Food and Ag Policy Research Institute says the response still wasn’t great. “They compensate on pure response numbers by asking more people. That’s what they’re doing. A 39 percent response rate is still well below what they would […]

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