Hogs & Pigs Survey to be conducted

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is contacting producers for the March Hogs and Pigs Survey.

Each quarter this survey provides comprehensive information on market hog and breeding stock inventories as well as pig crop and farrowing intentions in the US.

“I encourage all surveyed producers to respond to the March survey to ensure Illinois and Missouri hog inventory continues to be accurately counted” said Brad Summa, director of the NASS Heartland Regional Field Office.

The data gathered in the survey will allow NASS to accurately measure and report conditions and trends in the U.S. pork industry over the last three months. The information is used by all sectors of the industry, including producers themselves, to help make sound and timely business decisions.

NASS will mail the questionnaires to selected hog producers in February.  Farmers are encouraged to respond online at agcounts.usda.gov, or by mail. Alternatively, NASS representatives will contact those who have not responded to arrange telephone interviews to complete the survey. 

NASS safeguards the privacy of all respondents and publishes only aggregate data, ensuring that no individual operation or producer can be identified, as required by federal law. NASS will publish the survey results in the Quarterly Hogs and Pigs report on, March 27 available online at www.nass.usda.gov/Publications.