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    • Organic Production

    Metadata Updated: April 21, 2025

    Note: Updates to this data product are discontinued. ERS collected data from USDA-accredited State and private certification groups to calculate the extent of certified organic farmland acreage and livestock in the United States. These are presented in tables showing the change in U.S. organic acreage and livestock numbers from 1992 to 2011 (see the National tables section). Data for 1997 and 2000-11 are presented by State and commodity (see the State tables section).

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

    Downloads & Resources

    References

    http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/organic-production/documentation.aspx

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from USDA JSON

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025
    Publisher Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture
    Maintainer
    Identifier USDA-ERS-29171
    Data First Published 2019-09-30
    Data Last Modified 2019-09-30
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 005:13
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Dictionary http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/organic-production/glossary.aspx
    Harvest Object Id 4a388057-c783-453f-97f7-0210b7143fa0
    Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
    Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
    Old Spatial United States
    Program Code 005:041
    Related Documents http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/organic-production/documentation.aspx
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 9acb88e98cea8eba47f104804d2f9fd1ad010a63d1e8e21c9987b79e8f0d7c7a
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":-124.733253,24.544245,-124.733253,49.388611,-66.954811,49.388611,-66.954811,24.544245,-124.733253,24.544245}
    Temporal 1992-01-01/2011-01-01

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