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ESTIMATES of 1975 planted acreages and livestock numbers will be developed from a major nationwide survey to be launched in late May and early June by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The program will be directed in this State by the Virginia Crop Reporting Service headed by Robert E. Schooley.
The goal of the survey, Schooley said, is to provide farmers and ranchers with current reliable and impartial information to assist them with production and marketing plans. Present farm prices and production costs, the economy, and export situation have created more than the usual number of uncertainties in agriculture, Schooley pointed out. Producers are especially vulnerable at times like these without the market stabilizing influence provided by official crop and livestock estimates. Rumors and trade guesses can upset delicate marketing situations.
The survey, using a representative sample of agriculture, will include personal interviews with some 70,000 producers, and several thousand livestock operators,
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