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    • Diverse Rotations Improve Valuable Ecosystem Services (DRIVES) Database

    Metadata Updated: December 2, 2025

    The DRIVES database combines of historical data from long-term agricultural field experiments throughout North America. Currently, the database contains crop yield, weather, agronomic management, and experimental metadata for 21 long-term experimental sites in the US, Canada, and Mexico. For details on DRIVES research and participating sites, visit https://www.drives-network.org/.As of May 2025, 17 sites have agreed to release the first round of data to the public on two conditions. First, users must complete a data request form to be granted access: https://www.drives-network.org/data-request. Second, any publications or products must adequately acknowledge the DRIVES data by citing this repository and acknowledging the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance for Canadian sites.After completing the data request form, you will receive an email with instructions for logging into the database. Canadian sites require a separate data request form emailed to acorrend@uoguelph.ca (Elora) and dhooker@uoguelph.ca (Ridgetown). A partially filled form is included in this repository and at https://www.drives-network.org/data-request. Users can download and harmonize database tables using the drivesR package, which can be installed from github.com/DRIVES-Project/drivesR. Instructions for installing and using the package can be found on our github page: drives-project.github.io/drivesR/This repository contains metadata tables, dictionaries, and inventories of DRIVES data. Detailed descriptions of each resource can be found in the README file.

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

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date December 2, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date December 2, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from USDA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 2, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date December 2, 2025
    Publisher Agricultural Research Service
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10779/USDA.ADC.28654694.v1
    Data Last Modified 2025-11-21
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 005:18, 005:20
    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
    Harvest Object Id e6dbb5ca-f2f0-4329-8d67-edc5da23f823
    Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
    Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Program Code 005:040
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 1fceaf561c969d1da32b8fb2fc9016900dc3c71e80f59c4576b7664b85f97393
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 1962-01-01/2021-12-31

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