The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) conducts hundreds of surveys every year and prepares reports including those related to crop statistics.
https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/
The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
USDA-NASS
Pratishtha Poudel, Dilli Paudel
Crops: Grain corn, Winter wheat
More crops can be added in the script if/when needed.
Variables [unit]: Acres harvested [acres], Production [bushels], Yield [bushels/acre].
The variables that can be selected and their units vary by crop. The ones above are for "CORN, GRAIN" (Grain Maize). Similarly, for "CORN, GRAIN", statistics are available for IRRIGATED as well as NON-IRRIGATED.
Temporal coverage: From: 1944 - To: 2022
Temporal resolution: Yearly
Spatial resolution: Agricultural District, County, State.
Date Published: Regular updates. The last update for CORN was 2023-12-01.
Data Modality: Tabular data
https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/api
The yield forecasting program of NASS is described in this document. This is a revised version of the document published in 2012.
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Cite the data source and the R package used to access it. See references.
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USDA-NASS, 2023. The Yield Forecasting Program of NASS. Technical Report. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Methodology_and_Data_Quality/Advanced_Topics/Yield%20Forecasting%20Program%20of%20NASS_2023.pdf, Last accessed: Feb 23, 2024.
Potter NA (2019). “rnassqs: An ‘R' package to access agricultural data via the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (USDA-NASS) ’Quick Stats' API.” The Journal of Open Source Software.
Potter N (2022). rnassqs: Access the NASS 'Quick Stats' API. R package version 0.6.1, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rnassqs.