Articles tagged under: Lance Honig
NASS Appoints Honig as ASB Chair
Published April 15, 2024
Lance Honig has been appointed as chair of USDA’s Agricultural Statistics Board and director of the methodology division. Honig has served in an acting capacity in both roles since last fall. As chair, Honig will lead the preparation and dissemination…Ag Census Coming Early ’24
Published December 10, 2023
The Census of Agriculture is scheduled to be released February 13. The census is released by USDA every five years providing an in-depth look at farming operations across the country. "We’ll look at new things that are coming," said National…Honig Takes on New Role
Published November 7, 2023
Lance Honig was named the acting chair of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics board. Honig has been the crops branch chair since 2008. He replaces Joe Parsons, who has been appointed NASS associate administrator.A Look at How USDA Acreage Surveys are Conducted
Published August 8, 2019
In late June, the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service announced they would re-survey U.S. crop acres. With the much-anticipated USDA crop production report less than one week away, USDA NASS Crops Branch Chief Lance Honig explains how the re-survey data…Next Week’s Report Focuses on Survey-Based Data
Published August 2, 2018
USDA’s National Ag Statistics Service has scouts in the field and talking with farmers, gathering data for next week’s crop report. NASS Crops Branch Chief Lance Honig says the August report is the first survey-based report of the season. "Certainly since…