This website highlights projects led by the Sustainable FSA initiative, strengthening US food security by assessing non-stationarity at the intersection of normal grazing periods and US drought assessment. Click on any card below to explore data repositories and interactive dashboards.
Weekly US Drought Monitor (USDM) data archived as GeoParquet files with detailed metadata, January 4, 2000 – Today.
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Weekly US Drought Monitor (USDM) data aggregated to US Census county boundaries.
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Official county-level normal grazing period definitions from the USDA Farm Service Agency, 2008–2024.
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Official county-level eligibility data for the Livestock Forage Program from the USDA Farm Service Agency, 2008–2024.
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The county boundary dataset used to determine LFP eligibility from the USDA Farm Service Agency, 2008–2024.
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Weekly US Drought Monitor (USDM) data aggregated to the Livestock Forage Program county boundaries.
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Archive of weekly US Drought Monitor (USDM) data aggregated to county boundaries as reported by the USDM.
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An archive of the FSA_Counties_dd17 dataset, originally distributed by the USDA Farm Service Agency.
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Records of US Secretary of Agriculture disaster designations and Presidential Major Disaster declarations.
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Official farm payment files from the USDA Farm Service Agency, 2004–2024, available in Parquet format.
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A reanalysis of FSA NAP-190 Normal Grazing Periods using data from NOAA's NClimGrid daily gridded weather dataset.
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