Provision for the 1940 Agriculture Census was made in the Act providing for the Fifteenth Decennial Census which was approved on June 18, 1929.  The reports are the results obtained from a tabulation of the information given by farm operators to census enumerators in a personal canvass in connection with the Sixteenth Decennial Census.

Statistics are provided for farms and farm property; size of farms; farm operators; farm mortgages and farm taxes; work off farm, age, and years on farm; cooperation, labor, expenditures, machinery, facilities, and residence; livestock and livestock products; field crops and vegetables; fruits and nuts, and horticultural specialties; and value of farm products.