ARMS Farm Financial and Crop Production Practices

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Overview & Data

The information provided here comes from the annual Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS)—USDA's primary source of information on the financial condition, production practices, resource use, and the economic well-being of America's farm households. Sponsored jointly by ERS and the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), ARMS is the only national survey that provides observations of field-level farm practices, the economics of the farm business, and the characteristics of the American farm household—all collected in a representative sample. Information about crop production, farm production, business, and households includes data for selected surveyed States where available. More about ARMS...

Major Data Topics

Note that data on costs and returns are now only available in the Commodity Costs and Returns data product.

New

• 2010 data for farm and household finances.
• Government payments tables (go to reports under the Farm Finances survey).
• Conservation practices and crop insurance data tables (select crops and years from the Crop Production Practices survey)
• 2010 corn production practices data.
• Comparability between conventional and organic production systems, and owner and renter operators, for production practices.

Recent Enhancements or Changes

• New tailored reports online tool.
• Revised farm typology (get details).
• New family farm definition (get details).

For More Detailed Data Needs

• Special tabulations of ARMS data
• Access to raw ARMS data

See Also

• Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS) briefing room—A synthesis of ERS research based on ARMS data.
• Farm Income data—Data tables detail value-added (farm income), cash receipts, rankings for commodities and States, production expenses, cash income, government payments, and income statements by size of farm.