A bill to amend section 142 of title 13 and section 411 (a) of title 7, United States Code, to prevent a change in the definition of a farm prior to June 30, 1976, to relieve the Secretary of Commerce of the responsibility for taking censuses of agriculture every 5th year, and to require the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service within the Department of Agriculture to collect comparable information using sampling methods.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Directs the Secretary of Commerce to continue the statistical classification of farms which was in effect on January 1, 1975, until June 30, 1976. Terminates the duty of the Secretary of Commerce to take agricultural censuses every five years and directs the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service within the Department of Agriculture to collect comparable information using sampling methods. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, when sampling methods would be inappropriate, to use other statistical methods to collect information relating to the classification of farms. (Amends 13 U.S.C. 142)…