So here is the final project for this class! As the title suggests, I mapped USDA certified organic livestock in the United States. The data is from 2005, the most recent year it was collected.
This map is a bivariate map where two groups were mapped; beef and poultry. You can see how most of the southern states in SE have very little certified livestock, in fact most of them have none at all. The same applies to SW part of the country, not including California. There is definitely a concentration of organic livestock in California and the Pacific Northwest, Texas and around the Great Lakes. States such as North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Kansas have large numbers of organic poultry but not that much organic beef production.
The map was more difficult to make than I had imagined. The bivariate color scheme was tricky and the data was very scattered having many extremely low values and on the other hand some very high values. The USDA logo could only be found online with a white box around it so I had to draw it myself. The type isn't the exact same used in the official logo but it is close enough.
This map is a bivariate map where two groups were mapped; beef and poultry. You can see how most of the southern states in SE have very little certified livestock, in fact most of them have none at all. The same applies to SW part of the country, not including California. There is definitely a concentration of organic livestock in California and the Pacific Northwest, Texas and around the Great Lakes. States such as North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Kansas have large numbers of organic poultry but not that much organic beef production.
The map was more difficult to make than I had imagined. The bivariate color scheme was tricky and the data was very scattered having many extremely low values and on the other hand some very high values. The USDA logo could only be found online with a white box around it so I had to draw it myself. The type isn't the exact same used in the official logo but it is close enough.
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