Visualizing Agricultural and Food System Datasets

Above is a low-res version of an animation of the percent of each US county at various points from 1850-2007 that has been improved to cropland. The map uses 5 shades of red increasing in intensity for every 20% of the county that is cropland. There is a high-res version below as a PDF. This was part of a lecture I gave the last full week of February in NRE 639 Sustainable Food Systems, an innovative seminar class that was largely organized by students at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources & Environment. Most of my lecture slides are provided below.

Contextualizing, Mapping, and Visualizing Food Environment & Food Localization by Shannon J. Brines, February 22, 2011

* agdatascenarios_nre639w2011.pdf - Lecture Slides
* cropacreshistory.pdf - A Historical Context: Percent of Each US County in Cropland from 1850-2007

Subsets of the 2007 US Ag Census Atlas Maps:
* cropsandplants_agcensus2007.pdf - Crops and Plants
* economics_agcensus2007.pdf - Economics
* farms_agcensus2007.pdf - Farms
* animals_agcensus2007.pdf - Livestock and Animals
* operators_agcensus2007.pdf - Operators