Rez Croplands: How Native Farmers and Ranchers Can Leverage the USDA’s Cropland Data Layer for Land Planning
According to summary statistics from the USDA’s Cropland Data Layer (CDL), there were about 110 million acres of cropland (5.7%) on Native American reservations (including on-reservation and off-reservation trust lands).* What are these croplands and land covers? How have they changed over time? Why does this data matter? NLAP’s What’s Growing on US Native Lands […]