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Find Where Your Food is Grown Using NASS Cropland Data Layer

March 18, 2020 Rick Mueller, Section Head, Spatial Analysis Research Section, USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service

Whether you are interested in seeing what’s grown in your area or you are a researcher with more in depth informational needs, NASS’s CropScape is a valuable tool for you. CropScape is the public user interface for the national land cover geospatial data product called Cropland Data Layer (CDL). The...

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Cropland Consolidation: Widespread, Substantial, and Persistent

April 26, 2018 Robert A. Hoppe and James M. MacDonald, Economic Research Service

Since the 1980s, the number of very large crop farms with at least 2,000 acres of cropland has nearly doubled while midsize farms (100 to 999 acres of cropland) fell by nearly half as U.S. cropland has consolidated on fewer, larger farms.

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