Title:

County-level agroforestry reported in the 2017 and 2022 U.S. Census of Agriculture (2nd Edition)

Author(s):

Kellerman, Todd A.; Feibel, Samuel

Publication Year:

2025

How to Cite:

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Kellerman, Todd A.; Feibel, Samuel. 2025. County-level agroforestry reported in the 2017 and 2022 U.S. Census of Agriculture. 2nd Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2023-0044-2

Abstract:

In the United States, agroforestry is commonly defined as a suite of land management practices that intentionally integrate woody plants (trees, shrubs, vines, etc.) with crop and/or animal production systems. Understanding agroforestry adoption in the United States is critical to serve as a baseline of existing agroforestry systems and for future planning purposes. There is growing interest in identifying where future systems are most likely to occur. Since 2017, the Census of Agriculture (COA) from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) has asked whether farm operations have agroforestry. While the COA does not differentiate the type of agroforestry used (e.g., windbreak, silvopasture, forest farming, alley cropping, riparian forest buffer) it does provide county-level numbers of farm operations practicing agroforestry. These raw numbers, available from the NASS website in tabular format, can then be joined to county-level geospatial data to provide thematic maps. This data publication includes vector polygon spatial data in multiple formats that includes the number of farm operations reporting agroforestry, the total number of farms, and the percentage of farm operations reporting agroforestry for each county in the U.S. in 2017 and 2022. The change in the proportion of farms reporting agroforestry from 2017 to 2022 is also included.

Keywords:

agroforestry; windbreaks; silvopasture; alley cropping; forest farming; riparian forest buffers; survey; farming; environment; Inventory, Monitoring, & Analysis; Resource inventory; Natural Resource Management & Use; Agroforestry; United States

Related publications:

• Kellerman, Todd A. 2023. County-level agroforestry reported in the 2017 U.S. Census of Agriculture. 1st Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2023-0044
• Kellerman, Todd; Feibel, Samuel; Smith, Matthew M.; Bentrup, Gary; Batcheler, Mark; MacFarland, Katherine. 2025. Agroforestry across the United States: Results of the 2022 Census of Agriculture. Agroforestry Systems. 99(34). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-024-01096-2
• Smith, Matthew M.; Bentrup, Gary; Kellerman, Todd; MacFarland, Katherine; Straight, Richard; Ameyaw, Lord. 2022. Agroforestry extent in the United States: A review of national datasets and inventory efforts. Agriculture. 12(5): 726-742. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture12050726 https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/64548
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