Featured Program: Farm 2 Fly 2.0 Feedstock Readiness Level Repository

This joint initiative between USDA, US Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, and the aviation industry focuses on assessing and maturing feedstocks and developing supply chains for alternative jet fuel production.

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Goodwater Creek Experimental Watershed

Nutrient and herbicide concentrations, loads, and daily discharge data for caves in the Goodwater Creek Experimental Watershed, a Long-Term...

USDA/ARS engineer Tom Trout checks out the CoAgMet weather station instrumentation. (Credit Peggy Greb)

USDA-ARS carries out water productivity field trials for maize in Colorado, analyzing irrigation, precipitation, soil water storage,...

Milkweed bug

The Baylor College of Medicine recently sequenced and annotated the Oncopeltus fasciatus genome as part of the i5k pilot project.
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12/27/16: Farm 2 Fly - Newest Ag Data Commons Program
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The Farm 2 Fly Program, with their Feedstock Readiness Level Evaluations, is the newest program to join the Ag Data Commons. Read more about the program!

9/29/16: GODAN 2016 Summit
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The Ag Data Commons was one of the open data products announced by the US Department of Agriculture at the recent 2016 Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition summit.

9/2/16: Ag Data Commons​ passes 200 dataset milestone
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Ag Data Commons recently published its 200th dataset with many more in the pipeline. The repository/registry is becoming an important part of the agricultural/environmental information ecosystem. We now house open data for a number of recently published articles, for example:

4/28/16: Ag Data Commons at USAIN 2016
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Ag Data Commons was highlighted in several sessions of the biennial United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) meeting held April 25-27, 2016 at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

2/23/16: New and Improved Functionality
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We have added new and improved features to the Ag Data Commons, including the ability to download a single zipped file containing all the resource files and metadata for a given record, cloning of datasets for convenient duplication of datasets with similar fields, and more!