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"Imagine this. You are a new farmer who bought a plot of land in your hometown. You’re making important decisions for your operation like what to plant and where. If only you had a tool to identify historical information for what’s been grown on your land and in your area that would allow you to make better informed decisions to set up your new business for success.
Thanks to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) and Economic Research Service (ERS), this tool has become a reality. The public can now access a new geospatial product called Crop Sequence Boundaries (CSB). CSB is a cutting-edge map of agricultural fields that provides crop acreage estimates and historical planting decisions across the contiguous United States. Created using satellite imagery and other public data, it allows users to conduct area and statistical analyses of planted U.S. commodities."
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