Crop Production Practices
Overview
Crop Production Practices is a data file based on information collected through
a series of annual field-level commodity surveys. Also known as Phase II of
the Agricultural Resource Management Survey (ARMS), this series is USDA's
primary source of information about the current status and trends in crop production
practices for several large-acreage field crops (corn, soybeans, wheat, and
cotton). This survey also obtains data on U.S. farmers' agricultural resource
use, as well as data to assess potential environmental impacts associated with
crop production practices.
The ARMS survey annually collects field-level information on chemicals and
seeds, equipment, previous crops, highly erodible land, irrigation, and pest,
nutrient, and crop residue management practices. The Crop Production Practices
data can be summarized by crop, year, ERS Farm Resource Region, irrigation
system, previous crop, highly erodible land, and tillage system. Data summaries
are available for production years beginning in 1996.
These surveys support NASS's Agricultural Chemical Usage reports and provide
ERS with a database to research and report many economic issues related to
crop production practices. Crop production practices data also supplement ERS's
Commodity Costs and Returns data.
In This Section:
- Documentation
Get the ARMS survey questionnaires; review the scope, coverage, and methodology
- Tailored Reports
Select among survey data sets to build custom reports, refine queries with
specific samples/populations, group summary statistics for comparisons, and
choose among output options for results (tables, charts, etc)
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