Skip to main content
Sustainable FSA

Open data

Data archives

Authoritative, versioned datasets that underpin the project's analyses and the federal disaster-relief programs they study. Every archive is openly licensed, fully documented, and accompanied by reproducible code.

The project maintains two kinds of archive: public sources that the team mirrors and republishes in analysis-ready formats (the US Drought Monitor, Secretarial and Presidential disaster designations, FSA farm payment files, and the legacy FSA county boundary geodatabase), and FOIA-sourced records the team obtained directly from USDA FSA (county-level Normal Grazing Periods, LFP eligibility determinations, the LFP county boundaries used for eligibility, and the current FSA county boundary geodatabase).

The USDM-based archives update each Thursday with the latest weekly release. The FOIA-sourced archives are refreshed when new FOIA responses are received. Each card below links to a detailed README, machine-readable downloads, and (where available) an interactive dashboard.

Livestock Forage Program Payments, Derived preview

DERIVED DATA

Livestock Forage Program Payments, Derived

Estimated LFP payments foregone, program years 2008–2025, under three data issues in county eligibility determinations — non-authoritative county boundaries, the NDMC's percent-of-county coverage threshold, and the undocumented cap on eligible payment months — derived by scaling actual disbursements from the Farm Payment Files by the ratio of months the drought record warrants to months FSA paid. An estimate with stated assumptions, not an accounting of money owed.