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Estimates of agricultural cropping-practices in counties in the conterminous United States as reported in the 1987 Census of Agriculture, AG_CROP2

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Release Date
1994-01-01
Time Period
1991
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Battaglin, W.A. and Goolsby, D.A., 1994, Estimates of agricultural cropping-practices in counties in the conterminous United States as reported in the 1987 Census of Agriculture, AG_CROP2: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9DC6WOO.

Summary

These data were released prior to the October 1, 2016 effective date for the USGS’s policy dictating the review, approval, and release of scientific data as referenced in USGS Survey Manual Chapter 502.8 Fundamental Science Practices: Review and Approval of Scientific Data for Release. This coverage contains estimates of agricultural cropping-practices in counties in the conterminous United States as reported in the 1987 Census of Agriculture (U.S. Department of Commerce, 1989a). Agricultural cropping-practice data are reported as either acres, or as a percentage of county area. Agricultural cropping-practice estimates were generated from surveys of all farms where $1,000 or more of agricultural products were sold, or normally would [...]

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Purpose

The agricultural cropping-practice estimates in this coverage are intend for use in estimating regional cropping-practices, and in producing visual displays and mapping relative amounts of agricultural crops across broad regions of the United States.
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These data were originally released on the Water Mission Area National Spatial Data Infrastructure Node and were migrated to sciencebase.gov in 2023. These data were released prior to the October 1, 2016 effective date for the USGS's policy dictating the review, approval, and release of scientific data as referenced in USGS Survey Manual Chapter 502.8 Fundamental Science Practices: Review and Approval of Scientific Data for Release.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9DC6WOO

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