When eating M&M's, this term is used to identify the changes of getting a certain color.
What is Probability?
100
Forms of social media NASS uses to get out our information-- one kind rhymes with dog and the other kind gets confused with a singing bird.
What are Blog and Twitter?
100
Before NASS uses new questionnaires, we do this to check for issues.
What is Pre-test?
100
Sap collected from this tree creates this syrup. It tastes delicious on pancakes.
What is Maple?
100
An agency that provides estimates on farm acreage, production, stocks, prices, and income.
What is NASS?
200
Crop production can be measured in 2 different ways. One is tons. This is the other
What is Bushels?
200
Handheld computers that we use to collect data when we interview farmers.
What is an iPad?
200
This office is in charge of information releases and related communications at NASS.
What is the Public Affairs Office?
200
Any product such as grain, fruit, nut, or vegetables.
What is a crop?
200
This image has a silo and bar graphs on it.
What is the NASS logo?
300
A small group of people. If you pick them carefully, their answers can represent all the people you didn't talk to.
What is a sample?
300
These machines are used to take pictures of the US from space. NASS uses them as one way to measure what farmers are growing.
What are satellites?
300
NASS uses this to distribute findings.
What is a publication?
300
This tall farm tower is where farmers store their grain.
What is a silo?
300
The administrator of NASS.
Who is Joe Reilly?
400
NASS uses 3 types of this special picture -- bar, line, scatterplot-- to look at data.
What is a graph?
400
The tool NASS uses to have meetings face-to-face on a screen in meeting rooms.
What is VTC (Video-TeleConferencing)
400
We do this on paper (mail), on the telephone (calling), on the internet (online/web), and taking to an interviewer.
What is data collection?
400
The contribution bees make in the agricultural process.
What is gather pollen and pollinate?
400
The leading source of facts and figures about American agriculture.
What is the Census of Agriculture?
500
The process of dividing an entire population into groups based on size or type of farm.
What is Stratification?
500
The name of the tool NASS uses for Web/Online data collection.
What is EDR?
500
This technique helps NASS make sure that farmers understand our questions and that we get the answers that we need.
What are cognitive interviews?
500
Soybeans are used for this purpose the most in the U.S.
What are processed for their oil and are used for protein for the animal feed industry?
500
This is the largest annual NASS survey and designed to account for every acre of land, all agricultural activities, and land uses with segment boundaries