Agriculture: Data and Statistics : Research Data, Datasets

This guide provides links to compiled statistics and research data products concerning agriculture in Wisconsin, the United States, and internationally.

Datasets, Repositories

AgData Commons, USDA
The Ag Data Commons is a public, government, scientific research data catalog and repository available to help the agricultural research community share and discover research data funded by the United States Department of Agriculture and meet Federal open access requirements.
Cropland Data Layer, CropScape NASS, USDA
Geospatial raster dataset showing crop-specific land cover classification that focuses primarily on mapping cultivated fields and providing an update on the agriculture landscape in the United States.
Data.gov, Data Catalog
Open US federal agency datasets; can filter by topic categories.
Data Products, Economic Research Service, USDA
ERS conducts research on economics and policy issues involving food, farming, environment, and rural development. Visit site for data tables, datasets, visualizations, publications.
OECD Data, Agriculture
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) datasets, tables, publications concerning outputs, production, etc.
World Bank Open Data
Free, open access to global development data.
World Bank, DataBank
DataBank is an analysis and visualization tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics.

UW-Madison Research Data Services (RDS) Resources

UW-Madison Research Data Services (RDS) can help you learn how to efficiently curate and share your data and code. RDS is an interdisciplinary organization committed to advancing research data management practice on the UW-Madison campus, with a focus on providing researchers with the tools and resources that support their efforts to store, analyze and share data.

Here are some selected links from the RDS website to get you started: