The Renewable Fuels Association says it’s concerned with the USDA’s decision to discontinue its reporting of farm acreage, yield, and production estimates at the county level.
RFA chief economist Scott Richman tells Brownfield county-level data helps ethanol producers track certain feedstock characteristics as state and federal climate policies emerge.
“Being able to have good, granular data about what’s really going on on the ground is important to us,” Richman said.
In a letter to USDA this week, RFA President and CEO Geoff Cooper wrote, “The quality and robustness of NASS data is incomparable, and the existing agricultural statistics reporting system is a unique strength that helps U.S.
