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County level data was downloaded from the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) at https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/AgCensus/2017/Online_Resources/Ag_Atlas_Maps/ . The data for the continental US, Alaska, and Hawaii were merged to create a spatial dataset to apply attribution.
A selection of 3 attributes from the NASS 2017 Agricultural census (https://www.nass.usda.gov/AgCensus/) were used to fill the following attributes:
NumFarms - Y17_M001: Number of Farming operations
NetIncome - Y17_M031: Net Cash income of farming operations
FarmLandPercent - Y17_M059: Acres of Land in Farms as Percent of Land Area in Acres
In addition, a measure of acres of farmland was derived using the following equation:
FarmLandAcres = (!FarmLandPercent!/100) * !atlas_acres!