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    • Fertilizer Use and Price

    Metadata Updated: April 21, 2025

    This product summarizes fertilizer consumption in the United States by plant nutrient and major fertilizer products—as well as consumption of mixed fertilizers, secondary nutrients, and micronutrients—for 1960 through the latest year for which statistics are available. The share of planted crop acreage receiving fertilizer, and fertilizer applications per receiving acre (by nutrient), are presented for major producing States for corn, cotton, soybeans, and wheat (data on nutrient consumption by crop start in 1964). Fertilizer farm prices and indices of wholesale fertilizer prices are also available.

    Access & Use Information

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

    Downloads & Resources

    References

    http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/fertilizer-use-and-price.aspx

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y

    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-04082
    Data First Published 2019-10-30
    Data Last Modified 2019-10-30
    Category Tag 16E15F51 D96E 4051 9124 75665Abdc6Ff "Food Resilience","Food Production","Food Safety and Nutrition"
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P1Y
    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/fertilizer-use-and-price.aspx
    Harvest Object Id a32ed78d-d0be-4a18-9b2f-d0dcd5789e9c
    Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
    Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Old Spatial United States
    Program Code 005:041
    Related Documents http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/fertilizer-use-and-price.aspx
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash bf2d3c27bedd45ea9bda42f79d5c3142a69ab8c6864be046495cfe046a85a338
    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 1960-01-01/2013-01-01

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