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Fertilizer Use and Price

Metadata Updated: February 24, 2021

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 February 24, 2021
Data Update Frequency R/P1Y

Metadata Source

Harvested from USDA JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date February 24, 2021
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
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Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
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Data Dictionary http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/fertilizer-use-and-price.aspx
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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
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