Overview
 This data product allows you to download and map county-level farm program and planted acreage data. Users can manipulate the data to illustrate the share of commodity base acreage planted. Farm program and planted acreage data are available for the nine major program crops (corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, wheat, rice, upland cotton, peanuts, and soybeans). Farm program data are also available for minor oilseeds (sunflower, rapeseed, canola, safflower, flaxseed, mustard, crambe, and sesame). You can make and customize both maps and tables.
This mapping application functions best in Internet Explorer (version 6.0 or later).
Data
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Mapping Tool
Make and download custom maps and tables of planted and program acres. |
| Updated October 2009 |
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Download the Data
Get the data that are used to generate the maps. |
| Updated October 2009 |
Available data include:
- Program acres from USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA):
- Production Flexibility Contract acres under
the 1996 Farm Act, by commodity,
- Base acres designated under the 2002 Farm
Act, by commodity,
- Base acres updated to 1998-2001 plantings under
the 2002 Farm Act, by commodity, and
- State- and county-level direct and counter-cyclical program yields for 2002, by commodity.
- Acreage from USDA's National Agricultural
Statistics Service (NASS):
- Planted acreage (annual), and
- Cropland acreage from the 2002 and 2007 Censuses of Agriculture.
Related Links
Economic Analysis of
Base Acre and Payment Yield Designations Under the
2002 U.S. Farm Act evaluates farmers' decisions
to designate base acres under the 2002 Farm Act. Findings
suggest that decisionmakers responded to economic incentives
in their designations of base acres by selecting those
options that resulted in the greatest expected flow
of program payments.
ERS Farm and Commodity
Policy Briefing Room provides background on farm
policy and an explanation of the various programs.
Also included is a glossary
of policy terms and access to ERS analyses of the
impacts of farm policy, commodity-specific farm programs,
and commodity trade policy, highlighting the impacts
of the 2002 Farm Act.
U.S.
and State Farm Income Data provides national- and
State-level estimates of farm program government payments.
National
Agricultural Statistics Service, Quick Stats provides
acreage and production data on agricultural commodities.
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