[PW] ? decline in farmers

[Dan Clinton]

Call the Census Bureau Library reference desk @ 301-763-2511. In the pm 
Allan Schenkel is usually on the desk. He'll help you locate the data.


Dan Clinton (Contractor)
Technical Services Librarian
U.S. Census Bureau Library
FOB 3, Room 2554
Washington, DC 20233-1980

301-763-6640  (direct line)
301-457-2407  (fax)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael J. Lowrey" <orangemike at gmail.com>
To: <list at project-wombat.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [PW] ? decline in farmers


> On 1/30/07, Stacey Marien <smarien at american.edu> wrote:
>> This is out of my area of expertise! I have a friend who wants to know
>>  the decline in farmers and farmerland in Jefferson Co, WV
>> from 2000 to 2007 (or from 1990 to present, something like that)
>>
>> Any of ideas of where to look?  He says the Farmland Trust did not have 
>> the
>> answer
>
> 2002 U.S. Census of Agriculture is here:
> http://www.nass.usda.gov/Census_of_Agriculture/index.asp#top
> 1997 is here:
> http://www.nass.usda.gov/Census_of_Agriculture/1997/index.asp
> 1992 is here:
> http://www.nass.usda.gov/Census_of_Agriculture/1992/index.asp
>
> I hope that will give him enough to go on. The interface is not
> entirely intuitive, but there's a LOT of data there.
>
> -- 
> Michael J. "Orange Mike" Lowrey
>
> "When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food
> and clothes."
>     --  Desiderius Erasmus
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