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Agricultural land use by field: Minnesota 2010-2019

Improving the quality of water discharged from agricultural watersheds requires comprehensive and adaptive approaches for planning and implementing conservation practices. These measures will need to consider landscape hydrology, distributions of soil types, land cover, and crop distributions in an integrated manner. The two most consistent challenges to these efforts will be consistency and reliability of data, and the capacity to translate conservation planning from watershed to farm and field scales. The translation of scale is required because, while conservation practices can be planned based on a watershed scale framework, they must be implemented by landowners in specific fields and riparian sites that are under private ownership. To support these goals, it has been necessary to develop planning approaches, high-resolution spatial datasets, and conservation practice assessment tools that will allow the agricultural and conservation communities to characterize and mitigate these challenges. The field boundary dataset represents a spatial framework for assembling and maintaining geospatial data to support conservation planning at the scale where conservation practices are implemented.

This field boundaries dataset has been assembled to support field-scale agricultural conservation planning using the USDA/ARS Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework (ACPF). The original data used to create this database are the pre-2008 Farm Bill FSA common land unit (CLU) datasets. A portion of metadata found herein pertains to the USDA FSA CLU. The remaining information has been developed to reflect the repurposing of the data in its aggregated form. It is important to note that all USDA programmatic and ownership information that was associated with the original data have been removed. Beyond that, these data has been extensively edited to reflect crop-specific land use consistent with 2015 land cover as derived from 2015 NASS Crop Data Layer datasets and 2015 aerial photography, and no longer reflects discrete ownership patterns.

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Modified
2022-09-29
Release Date
2020-12-28
Identifier
02784a2e-ab78-4bc2-b40e-136744b06dc0
Spatial / Geographical Coverage Area
POLYGON ((-96.943359375 43.174136889598, -90.703125 43.270206190769, -90.9228515625 44.001705676992, -92.2412109375 45.376267024181, -91.1865234375 46.778433231125, -89.12109375 48.203625575147, -95.009765625 49.590238821182, -97.470703125 49.189781745417))
Publisher
Ag Data Commons
Spatial / Geographical Coverage Location
Minnesota
Temporal Coverage
January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2019
License
Data Dictionary
Contact Name
James, David E.
Contact Email
Public Access Level
Public
Program Code
005:040 - Department of Agriculture - National Research
Bureau Code
005:18 - Agricultural Research Service