Estimates of agricultural cropping-practices in counties in the conterminous United States as reported in the 1987 Census
of Agriculture
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Resource Abstract:
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 have been sold, during the census year.Most
of the attributes summarized represent 1987 data, but some information for the 1982 Census of Agriculture also was included.The
polygons representing county boundaries in the conterminous United States, as well as lakes, estuaries, and other nonland-area
features were derived from the Digital Line Graph (DLG) files representing the 1:2,000,000-scale map in the National Atlas
of the United States (1970).cropsAgricultural cropping-practicesCensus of AgricultureCountiesUnited States
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Title Estimates of agricultural cropping-practices in counties in the conterminous United States as reported in the 1987 Census
of Agriculture
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Cinergi keyword enhanced at Mon Jan 16 08:59:18 UTC 2017
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.