Is the survey recently requested from USDA/NASS related to the NAIS program?
#7 A: No. NASS is the National Agricultural Statistics Service and NAIS is the National Animal Identification System – a program under the Animal Plant Health Inspection Service agency. These are very different. Providing details about one’s operation to NASS does not provide anything to USDA/APHIS nor NAIS. Congress mandates that an Ag Census be conducted every 5 years. It is important that small farms be accurately represented in these census figures. For more information, see http://www.agcensus.usda.gov/ Also add MORE INFORMATION Link to continue) Additional Sheep and Goat Inventory Surveys are provided at intervals between the 5 year Ag Census reports. While they are under the same department (USDA – U.S .Department of Agriculture), they are entirely different. NASS is an agency within USDA and NAIS is a program managed by another agency (APHIS- Animal Plant Health Inspection Service). The NASS is prohibited by law from sharing private information outside their specific agency, ev
