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US Department of Agriculture
Also called: USDA, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Department of Agriculture, NASS, National Agricultural Statistics Service
The federal department for farming, food and rural America. Its National Agricultural Statistics Service runs hundreds of surveys a year and publishes reports on nearly every part of US agriculture, which agtech founders use to size markets. It also runs SNAP.
For example: A founder building software for cattle ranchers pulls USDA statistics on ranch counts to estimate the market.