Census Is Online & Moving the Endangered Species Act Forward

Census Is Online & Moving the Endangered Species Act Forward plus Getting the Information You Need. I'm Greg Martin with today's Northwest Report.

Then Endangered Species Act has not been reauthorized since 1988 and the House Natural Resources Committee has been working to create more transparency and more species recovery according to Washington Congressman, Doc Hastings.

HASTINGS: We passed four bills out of the House Natural Resources Committee dealing with the Endangered Species Act. What these bill do - the common thread is to ensure that there is more transparency in the listing of species. I think the people that could be potentially impacted need to know what is the data that is being used to even have a potential listing. But another part to it is that those areas that would be impacted. They certainly should know what data is being used.

National Agricultural Statistics Service is announcing the final results of the 2012 Census of Agriculture to highlight changing trends in U.S. operator demographics, agriculture production and farm economics. This highly-anticipated release will provide national, state and county data that are only collected and reported every five years as part of the Census of Agriculture. The new or expanded data will cover numerous topics, including renewable energy production, Internet access and other on-farm practices; operator age, years farming, farm ownership and additional farmer profiles; marketing and distribution methods, value added products, organic production and a plethora of specialty commodities.

Now a simple click of the mouse can get you a lot of information. Susan Carter has more.

(USDA Report)

Thanks Susan. That's today's Northwest Report. I'm Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.