The U.S. floriculture industry saw a 4.2 percent increase in sales last year over 2021, while cut flower sales fell, as did the number of floriculture producers and acreage in production, ac... Read more
The U.S. floriculture industry’s sales grew nearly 16 percent from 2019 to 2021, hitting the $6 billon mark for the first time, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Agric... Read more
The U.S. floral industry will soon have — for the first time — comprehensive data on domestic floriculture production and sales in all 50 states thanks to changes to a survey by the U.S. Dep... Read more
Despite significant challenges, the Society of American Florists recently helped secure an additional $500,000 in funding for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Stati... Read more
The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently published the 2018 Floriculture Crops Summary — a report that came about as a direct result of lobbying by the Society of American Florists and me... Read more
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has released the 2017 Census of Agriculture. The census, taken only once every five years, is a complete count of U.S. farms and ranches and the peo... Read more
The US Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistic Service (NASS) is preparing for the 2019 Census of Horticultural Specialties. The posted notice provides information... Read more
The recent federal spending bill that Congress approved to fund the government included $500,000 for the publication of the Floriculture Crops Summary report, a priority issue for the floric... Read more
SAF and AmericanHort Suggest Improvements to Census of Horticultural Specialties
SAF and AmericanHort submitted joint comments to the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) in response to its request for input about “ways to enhance the quality, utility, and cla... Read more