1. NAME AND TITLE OF DATA LIBRARY

AGDATA: Two Agricultural Production Data Libraries (AGDATC and AGDATG) for Dose and Risk Assessment Models

2. NAME AND TITLE OF DATA RETRIEVAL PROGRAMS

AGC Fortran 77 source to read and edit selected parameters for the county organized data file.

AGG Fortran 77 source to read and edit selected parameters for the grid cell organized data file.

3. CONTRIBUTOR

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

4. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This is the first version of these libraries to be produced from the 1974 United States Census of Agriculture.

5. APPLICATION OF THE DATA

These data, in a different form, are used in the CRRIS codes TERRA and ANDROS to estimate the health effects and risks from airborne radionuclides deposited on food and feed crops. They are also suitable for use in the assessment of other airborne pollutants that can affect man from food ingestion, such as effluents from synfuels or coal-fired plants. Both libraries contain crop and livestock feed production and productivity data, livestock inventories and sales data, and meteorological information, 40 parameters in all, for either 3067 counties (AGDATC) or 3524 1/2 by 1/2 degree longitude-latitude grid cells (AGDATG) that define the conterminous United States (excluding Alaska and Hawaii).

6. SOURCE AND SCOPE OF DATA

The 1974 Census of Agriculture is the source of most of these data which were supplemented with the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Economics, Statistics & Cooperatives Service surveys of farmers and people who do business with farmers to provide agricultural information resolved to the state level.

7. DISCUSSION OF THE DATA RETRIEVAL PROGRAM

The retrieval programs read the data and edit selected parameters.

8. DATA FORMAT AND COMPUTER

EBCDIC card images; IBM 3033.

9. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME

The retrieval programs each run in less than 15 cpu seconds on the IBM 3033.

10. REFERENCES

a. Included in documentation:

C. F. Baes III, R. W. Shor, R. D. Sharp, and A. L. Sjoreen, "Two Agricultural Production Data Libraries for Risk Assessment Models," Journal of Environmental Quality, 14(4), pp. 509-516, October-December 1985.

R. F. Olsen and G. W. Westley, County Code Equivalents for Regional Economic Analysis, ORNL-NSF-EP-35 (January 1973).

b. Background information:

C. F. Baes III, R. D. Sharp, A. L. Sjoreen, and R. W. Shor, A Review and Analysis of Parameters for Assessing Transport of Environmentally Released Radionuclides through Agriculture, ORNL-5786, (September 1984).

R. W. Shor, C. F. Baes III, and R. D. Sharp, Agricultural Production in the United States by County: A Compilation of Information from the 1974 Census of Agriculture for Use in Terrestrial Food-Chain Transport and Assessment Models, ORNL-5768, (January 1982).

C. F. Baes III, C. W. Miller, D. C. Kocher, A. L. Sjoreen, B. D. Murphy, An Introduction to CRRIS: A Computerized Radiological Risk Investigation System for Assessing Atmospheric Releases of Radionuclides, ORNL/TM-8573, (August 1985).

11. CONTENTS OF LIBRARY

Included are the retrieval programs and the AGDATC and AGDATG data libraries written in EBCDIC card images; total records 26,494.

12. DATE OF ABSTRACT

June 1987.