The Census of Agriculture, produced by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), provides a complete count of America's farms, ranches and the people who grow our food. The census is conducted every five years, most recently in 2022, and provides an in-depth look at the agricultural industry. This layer was produced from data obtained from the USDA National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) Large Datasets download page. The data were transformed and prepared for publishing using the Pivot Table geoprocessing tool in ArcGIS Pro and joined to county boundaries. The county boundaries are 2022 vintage and come from Living Atlas ACS 2022 feature layers.Dataset SummaryPhenomenon Mapped: Soybean productionProjection: Web Mercator Auxiliary SphereGeographic Extent: 48 contiguous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto RicoSource: USDA National Agricultural Statistics ServiceUpdate Frequency: 5 yearsData Vintage: 2022Publication Date: April 2024AttributesNote that some values are suppressed as "Withheld to avoid disclosing data for individual operations", "Not applicable", or "Less than half the rounding unit". These have been coded in the data as -999, -888, and -777 respectively. You should account for these values when symbolizing or doing any calculations.Commodities included in this layer:Soybeans - Acres HarvestedSoybeans - Operations with Area Harvested - Area Harvested: (1.0 to 24.9 Acres)Soybeans - Operations with Area Harvested - Area Harvested: (25.0 to 99.9 Acres)Soybeans - Operations with Area Harvested - Area Harvested: (100 to 249 Acres)Soybeans - Operations with Area Harvested - Area Harvested: (250 to 499 Acres)Soybeans - Operations with Area Harvested - Area Harvested: (500 to 999 Acres)Soybeans - Operations with Area Harvested - Area Harvested: (1,000 or More Acres)Soybeans - Operations with Area HarvestedSoybeans - Operations with SalesSoybeans - Production, Measured in BushelsSoybeans - Sales, Measured in US DollarsSoybeans, Irrigated - Acres HarvestedSoybeans, Irrigated - Operations with Area Harvested Geography NoteIn Alaska, one or more county-equivalent entities (borough, census area, city, municipality) are included in an agriculture census area.What can you do with this layer?This layer is designed for data visualization. Identify features by clicking on the map to reveal the pre-configured pop-up. You may change the field(s) being symbolized. When symbolizing other fields, you will need to update the popup accordingly. Simple summary statistics are supported by this data.Questions?Please leave a comment below if you have a question about this layer, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.