Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;font-size:12pt"><DIV><P><SPAN>To address the ongoing need to improve understanding of agricultural land patterns and rates of change to inform land use planning and policymaking at relevant scales, American Farmland Trust and Conservation Science Partners worked together to classify land cover/use across the conterminous US, with a special focus on agricultural land. This effort provides several important improvements over existing data sources by harmonizing NRI estimates of agricultural land with available spatial data; mapping agricultural land use and conversion to development in a consistent way over time; identifying the most important agricultural lands in each state based on soil productivity, versatility and resiliency; accounting for effects of low-density residential development on agricultural lands; including a new class of agricultural lands that estimates woodlands associated with farms; and mapping grazing on federal lands.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
Service Item Id: cbe8bb8328f5432085308615caba208a
Copyright Text: Conservation Science Partners and American Farmland Trust
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;font-size:12pt"><P><SPAN>To address the ongoing need to improve understanding of agricultural land patterns and rates of change to inform land use planning and policymaking at relevant scales, American Farmland Trust and Conservation Science Partners worked together to classify land cover/use across the conterminous US, with a special focus on agricultural land. This effort provides several important improvements over existing data sources by harmonizing NRI estimates of agricultural land with available spatial data; mapping agricultural land use and conversion to development in a consistent way over time; identifying the most important agricultural lands in each state based on soil productivity, versatility and resiliency; accounting for effects of low-density residential development on agricultural lands; including a new class of agricultural lands that estimates woodlands associated with farms; and mapping grazing on federal lands.</SPAN></P></DIV>
Service Item Id: cbe8bb8328f5432085308615caba208a
Copyright Text: Conservation Science Partners and American Farmland Trust
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;font-size:12pt"><P><SPAN>To address the ongoing need to improve understanding of agricultural land patterns and rates of change to inform land use planning and policymaking at relevant scales, American Farmland Trust and Conservation Science Partners worked together to classify land cover/use across the conterminous US, with a special focus on agricultural land. This effort provides several important improvements over existing data sources by harmonizing NRI estimates of agricultural land with available spatial data; mapping agricultural land use and conversion to development in a consistent way over time; identifying the most important agricultural lands in each state based on soil productivity, versatility and resiliency; accounting for effects of low-density residential development on agricultural lands; including a new class of agricultural lands that estimates woodlands associated with farms; and mapping grazing on federal lands.</SPAN></P></DIV>
Service Item Id: cbe8bb8328f5432085308615caba208a
Copyright Text: Conservation Science Partners and American Farmland Trust