 Well, new reports show the number of farmers responding to surveys from the National Agricultural Statistics Service has dropped in recent years. This after a new study from the American Statistical Association warned the reliability of U.S. economic data is at risk for several reasons. Now, in the early 90s, response rates for NASC crop surveys were 80 to 85 percent. By the late 2010s, response rates had fallen below 60 percent in some cases. For a more specific example, the 2017 Census of Agriculture had a response rate of over 71 percent.