Die dominierende Nutzpflanze in jedem US-Bundesstaat [OC]
Von VeridionData
Die dominierende Nutzpflanze in jedem US-Bundesstaat [OC]
Von VeridionData
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2,968 continental US counties colored by whichever crop takes the largest share of harvested cropland acreage. 22 crop categories compared per county.
Data: USDA NASS 2022 Census of Agriculture. Hay & Forage dominates half the map because most US agricultural land genuinely exists to feed livestock, not a data artifact. 140 counties with no usable crop data are mostly urban.
Tools: Python for data processing, Claude for visualization, Puppeteer for export. County boundaries from us-atlas TopoJSON. Veridion for supplementary business location data.
I’d love to see this for the entire world
I want to see this map with lawns included
A little surprised to not see weed anywhere in NorCal, but I guess it can’t compete in acreage.
So what we’ve learned is that the meat industry is large
My one comment here is that in northern Wisconsin, the number one agricultural product is lumber.
It doesn’t show up under this definition of crop, but that entire area is virtually one solid forest, so I think it’s a bit misleading to portray „hay and forage“ as being the dominant product of that region (and I’m sure this would apply to other areas like northern MN, VT, and ME as well).
the big swath of no data in georgia is partly vidalia onion land!
I got curious and had to look it up. The corn grown in Santa Fe County is primarily used for livestock feed, so ultimately not too different from the hay & forage category.
I was thinking maybe it was local heirloom varieties of corn like blue corn but that seems to be a small percentage.
Seeing my almost 100% urbanized Florida county listed as “corn”…
Shout out filberts in Oregon!
What is the measurement that makes one crop dominant over others? Is it number of acres planted, or is it a money thing, or something else?
I live in a green county (soy bean) but there’s many more corn fields from what I see.
It’s amazing how much hay, forage and corn is grown compared to vegetables. And fruit not even listed! Tells you a lot about how much food is imported.
In southwest Oklahoma it’s 100% cotton not wheat. But it is a very cool graph.
Would be nice if grapes / wine were broken out specifically
By kg? By $? By bushel?
All in all, shit graphic
Edit: i see in comments you said it’s by acreage. I think that’s the worst possible measure but regardless it should be in the pic