1 / 6

Data to Serve 21 st Century Agriculture: Expanding ARMS St. Louis, Mo. Dec. 4-5

ARMS Conference Participant Survey. Data to Serve 21 st Century Agriculture: Expanding ARMS St. Louis, Mo. Dec. 4-5. Did you know about ARMS before being invited to this workshop?. 38 Total Responses “Yes” - 31 Responses, 82 Percent “No” - 7 Responses, 18%.

tatum-harper
Download Presentation

Data to Serve 21 st Century Agriculture: Expanding ARMS St. Louis, Mo. Dec. 4-5

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. ARMS Conference Participant Survey Data to Serve 21st Century Agriculture: Expanding ARMS St. Louis, Mo.Dec. 4-5

  2. Did you know about ARMS before being invited to this workshop? • 38 Total Responses • “Yes” - 31 Responses, 82 Percent • “No” - 7 Responses, 18%

  3. What current ARMS information/products do you find most useful? • Costs and Returns Estimates • Costs of Production • Chemical Use • Farm Typology/Structure • Household/Wealth Data Although a few respondents indicated that ARMS data was not useful to them, most respondents indicated several useful ARMS data products. One response noted, “I probably make use of all the ARMS data in one form or another.”

  4. List ways you think ARMS data can help you do your job. • Make Comparisons by State, Community or Farm Level • Target Education Programs • Farm Finance and Management Research/Extension • Analyze Effects of Farm Programs/Policy Changes • Provide More Detailed State-level Data • Legislative or Financial Institution Decision Making • Issues Which Are Not Currently Addressed by ERS One response noted, “It would be helpful to have direct access to survey information and to be able to create special runs.”

  5. What other data on agriculture and the food system do you use in your work? • Census of Agriculture • NASS/ERS Products • Farm Business Association • BEA-REIS • INPLAN • AELOS • Environmental Working Group • Remote Sensing Products • University Developed Products

  6. List what you learned about U.S. Agriculture today. • Reinforced the Variety (Even Within States) of Agriculture • Difficult to Develop Public Policy for States from Generalized National Data. • Federal Reserve Bank’s use of ARMS Data. • Federal Agencies are Looking to Work Together with Users. • How the ARMS Data is Collected.

More Related