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Environmental Quality Improvement Program (EQIP) Data—The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) provides technical, financial, and educational assistance for a wide range of agri-environmental activities. The data presented here provide an overview of what conservation practices are being funded, preliminary estimates of unit costs for the most commonly contracted conservation practices and, a comparison of unit costs for different contract sizes to determine the extent to which economies of scale exist practice by practice.
Major Land Uses—This data series contains estimates for major land uses in the United States, by State, for 1945-2002. The series is the only consistent historical accounting of major land uses, public and private, in all 50 States. The latest inventory of U.S. major land uses finds that total cropland area in 2002 was 442 million acres, its lowest level since 1945. Several other classes and subclasses of land are considered, including forest, pasture and range, urban, and miscellaneous and special uses such as parks and recreational areas. The annual cropland portion of the series has been consistently maintained since 1910 and has recently been updated through 2005.
Conservation Reserve Program Summary File—County-level data for contracts and acres enrolled by fiscal year (1986-93) and signup periods 1-12. Includes average rental rates, acres enrolled by level of erosion, conservation treatments applied, cost share data, base acreage reductions, and alternative use acreage. November 1995.
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