many speciality commodities that are not covered in our 

 statistical program, regardless of tiieir local importance. 



Earlier in this summary, 1 mentioned that thousands of 

 farmers and others contribute to our data collection effort, 

 in New England, the number exceeds 25,000 annual con- 

 tacts Many of these are repeat contacts to the same opera- 

 tion as we follow crop progress or survey different com- 

 modities within the same business. 



Why would farmers voluntarily provide confidential infor- 

 mation to our agency? They understand the value of having 

 timely, accurate statistics that represent the true New En- 

 gland agricultural picture and they trust us to safely protect 

 their privacy. We are prohibited from providing names and 

 addresses of farmers and any associated data to anyone ex- 

 cept the Bureau of Census for the 5-year Agricultural Cen- 

 sus Our lists and data are exempt from any requests that 

 are based on the Freedom of Information Act. National 

 court cases have upheld our right to protect farmers' confi- 

 dential data. 



We publish only summary data. If a specific estimate 

 discloses individual farm data, it will not be published 

 without written permission from the farmer reporting the 

 data or the estimates will be combined with an adjoining 

 state before publication. 



Our publications are free to farmers who wish to receive 

 them. 



Aubrey Davis is director of the New England Agricultural Sta- 

 tistics Service. People with questions or interested in receiving 

 NASS publications can call him at I -800-t)42-957 1 



{Statistics formulated by Bob Rimol, from information found in 

 New England Agricultural Statistics, 1993 1 



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