Agriculture — Data Braids

USDA NASS Census 2017 (132 MB) with full sweetGrass provenance braid. Ground truth for precision agriculture.

Agricultural census data for yield prediction, economic modeling, and precision agriculture development.

USDA NASS Census 2017

FieldValue
Size132 MB
Files1
SourceUSDA NASS
LicensePublic Domain
IngestedJuly 29, 2026
Provenance5/5 FULL
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Complete Census of Agriculture 2017. Farm counts, acreage, production volumes, economics, and demographics for every US county. The most comprehensive agricultural dataset available — conducted every 5 years by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service.

What’s Possible

  • Correlate agricultural production with weather patterns (NOAA GHCND)
  • Feed airSpring precision agriculture models with county-level ground truth
  • Economic modeling of farm operations across regions and crop types
  • Combine with satellite data (future AmeriFlux/ERA5) for yield prediction

The Braid

sweetGrass braid.create produced a W3C PROV-O JSON-LD attestation:

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    "prov:used": "https://www.nass.usda.gov/AgCensus/",
    "prov:wasAssociatedWith": "did:eco:westgate"
  },
  "prov:wasAttributedTo": "did:eco:westgate",
  "prov:generatedAtTime": "2026-07-29T...",
  "eco:license": "Public Domain",
  "eco:blake3_root": "...",
  "eco:file_count": 1,
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}

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