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Introducing New Rural Housing Data from USDA

For the first time, USDA’s Rural Housing Service is publicly releasing data across every program area in which the agency provides loans, guarantees, and grants—multifamily housing, single-family housing, and community facilities. This set of data will bring stakeholders and the public unprecedented insights into rural housing program delivery, impacts, challenges, and opportunities across the country. It will be updated regularly, so check back frequently for the latest release.

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Mapping applications like PolicyMap are incorporating USDA’s rural housing data and overlaying them with other indicators.

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FarmPlenty

February 18, 2016 By Data.gov

FarmPlenty helps farmers better analyze U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) open data on crops grown within a five mile radius of their farms. Inspired by his conversations with farmers on the challenges faced in predicting crop yields and consumer demand, founder George Lee built … Continued

Participants in Open Data Roundtables Guide USDA on Ways to Provide High Quality Data to Users

August 7, 2014 By Joyce M. Hunter, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Policy and Planning, USDA

“Find out who your audience and users are, then figure out the best, easiest way to provide data to them.” Last week, the Obama Administration focused on a specific climate risk – the risk to the food supply – and … Continued

Introducing OpenFDA from the Food and Drug Administration

March 11, 2014 By admin

Welcome to the new home of openFDA ! We are incredibly excited to see so much interest in our work and hope that this site can be a valuable resource to those wishing to use public FDA data in both the … Continued

Apps for Farmers

December 16, 2013 By admin

Agriculture data is helping fuel new products, services, and apps for farmers. Data in action include: The Climate Corporation offers insurance, software, and services to help farmers plan, manage, and protect their crops by using a number of open federal government data … Continued

National Institute for Food and Agriculture’s Research, Education, and Economics Information System

December 13, 2013 By admin

The Research, Education, and Economics Information System (REEIS) is a source of information on the research, education and extension programs, projects and activities of the U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and its partner institutions.

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