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1 Data for an agricultural preservation plan can be collected from a wide variety of sources. Many resources are available at the county and state level. For example, each county in Wisconsin has a soil survey compiled by the Soil Conservation Service, now called the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS). Versions of this soil information are available on computerized geographic information systems in some Wisconsin counties. This means that soil and other maps that include attributes such as topography, drainage, wetlands, transportation, etc., can be produced relatively quickly and accurately.2 The NRCS can render assistance in educating communities about its Land Evaluation-Site Analysis (LESA) system. The LESA system is one that allows weighing of a variety of land and site attributes to produce a quantitative score to apply to land. The scores that different parcels of land attain according to this system provide a means to compare different lands according to the priorities established during the planning process.3 A large amount of data on farm operators is available from the Census of Agriculture carried out every five years. The following list is not exhaustive, but illustrates the scope of information they provide:4 County-level data on the number and percentage of farm operators living on-farm,

• The distribution of operators by the number of days a year they work off-farm,
• the length of time spent on the present farm; the amount of land rented versus owned,
• the amount of cropland harvested by type of tenure,
• The age, sex, and ownership type of farm operators. (Note that the Census definition of a farm includes all operations selling as little as $1,000 of farm products per year.
• To focus more on commercial-scale farms, county-level data are available on: number and acreage of farms with sales of $10,000 or more by commodity group:)
• farm production expenses by major expense category and number of farms using each type of farm input, from which average expenses per farm can be derived,
• net cash returns,
• farm size distribution,
• government payments,
• value of land and buildings,
• number of farms using various types of machinery and equipment,
• number of milk cows and beef cows,
• number of hogs, cattle, and calves sold,
• frequency of farms of various herd sizes,
• number of specialty farms of various types, and
• Number of acres harvested by crops.

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