Margaret Thiele
Standards & Methodology Editor
Editorial standards, NASS methodology documentation, data caveats, and corrections
Margaret Thiele oversees editorial standards and methodology for CropReview. The role sets how NASS QuickStats sources are vetted, documents the caveats that matter — county-level suppression, marketing-year average-price value figures, and estimates that revise for up to two years — and handles how corrections are made. Explainers, methodology notes, and trust pages are AI-assisted in research and drafting, then reviewed against the primary USDA NASS sources before publication.
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How our content is produced
Content is produced by an AI-augmented editorial team: research and drafting are AI-assisted and reviewed by the named desk editor against primary public-data sources before publication.
See our Editorial Policy, Fact-Checking Policy, and Corrections Policy.