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Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program Important Farmland Data Availability The pulldown menus below provide links to FMMP information; the upper menu is for county data, while the lower menu accesses regional and statewide data. Older information of various types may only be available in hardcopy format.
COUNTY DATA: Available data includes biennial land use conversion tables, historic data summaries, field analyst reports, GIS data and metadata, and soil units qualifying for Prime Farmland or Farmland of Statewide Importance. SELECT A COUNTY: Full size county PDF maps are now available, beginning with 2006 data. These large maps are formatted to print on 36" plotters, or zoom in to your area of interest for greater detail. Individual counties may consist of one to three map sheets; PDF files may be up to 7 MB in size. Files are posted on our FTP site as they become available.

REGIONAL AND STATEWIDE INFORMATION: Available information includes biennial statewide conversion tables, regional tables summarizing urbanization and agricultural conversion, and the California Farmland Conversion Report. SELECT A YEAR:

Note: Some files on this site are in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) or compressed (ZIP) format. Utilities to read both are freely available on the internet. Spreadsheet information is formatted in Excel 2000 for Windows. Geographic information on the FTP site is posted in ESRI Shape File (SHP) format, with metadata in both XML and HTML formats.

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