The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations recommends that a country conducts a census of agriculture at least every ten years.

The 2017 CoCA is conducted under the world programme for the census of agriculture, spearheaded by FAO from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2025.

Opinion:The Central Statistics Office has published the final results of the 2010 Census of Agriculture.

Production of the Census of Agriculture would be delayed.

USDA says NASS would stop analysis of its 2012 Census of Agriculture, the foundation for USDA forecasts, under a sequester.

The 2007 Census of Agriculture counted 20,437 farms with land in organic production and sales of $1.7 billion.

Sioux County has more farms - 1,664 - than any of the state's other 98 counties, according to the USDA's 2007 Census of Agriculture.