Data from: Soil Water Holding Capacity Mitigates Downside Risk and Volatility in US Rainfed Maize: Time to Invest in Soil Organic Matter?

This dataset includes county-level annual data on maize (Zea mays L.) yield, soil physical and chemical characteristics, and mean weather data for 2000 through 2014 for IL, MI, MN and PA. The data were aggregated from public databases, including NASS Quick Stats (https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/), NOAA Climate Data Online (https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/) and the USDA-NRCS Web Soil Survey (http://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/App/HomePage.htm). U.S. counties were the experimental unit for this study, and all data are county-level averages. Covariances among county-level maize yield stability and environmental variability were analyzed using structural equation models (SEM) and linear mixed effects (LME) models.

Resources in this dataset:
Resource Title: Maize adaptability analysis.
File Name: maize_aa_all_2000 to 2014.csv

Resource Title: SEM data, all states.
File Name: sem_all.csv

Resource Title: Data Dictionary.
File Name: DataDictionary.csv