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Township Canada samples it per quarter section and builds a ",[19,24,25],{},"five-year rotation"," from the most recent classifications.",[10,28,30],{"id":29},"what-it-carries","What it carries",[15,32,33,34,37,38,41,42,45],{},"For each quarter section we derive the ",[19,35,36],{},"dominant crop",", the ",[19,39,40],{},"rotation pattern"," across the last five years, and a ",[19,43,44],{},"Shannon crop-diversity index"," that rewards a varied rotation over a persistent monoculture. 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Township Canada samples the dominant class per quarter section and maps it to an IPCC reporting group.",[10,171,30],{"id":29},[15,173,174,175,178,179,182],{},"Each quarter section carries its ",[19,176,177],{},"dominant land-use class",", the AAFC class label, the ",[19,180,181],{},"IPCC group",", and the percentage breakdown of classes within the quarter. This is what distinguishes a fully cropped quarter from one that is half grassland or carries a settlement footprint.",[10,184,49],{"id":48},[15,186,187,188,191,192,195,196,199],{},"We carry a land-use class on ",[19,189,190],{},"more than 1.8 million quarter sections",", spanning ",[19,193,194],{},"37 distinct classes",". 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It also informs the ",[83,214,86],{"href":85},": when a quarter's dominant use is not cropland, the crop-diversity component is treated neutrally rather than penalizing non-cropped land.",[89,217,218],{},[15,219,220,96,222,225],{},[19,221,95],{},[98,223,224],{},"\u002Fimages\u002Flearn\u002Fdata-sources\u002Faafc-land-use\u002Fland-use-card.png","): the Agriculture tab land-use card showing the dominant class, IPCC group, and the within-quarter class breakdown.",[10,227,105],{"id":104},[107,229,230,235,241],{},[110,231,232],{},[83,233,234],{"href":150},"AAFC Annual Crop Inventory",[110,236,237],{},[83,238,240],{"href":239},"\u002Flearn\u002Fdata-sources\u002Fcli-land-capability","CLI Land Capability",[110,242,243],{},[83,244,245],{"href":85},"Productivity Score methodology",{"title":129,"searchDepth":130,"depth":130,"links":247},[248,249,250,251,252],{"id":12,"depth":130,"text":13},{"id":29,"depth":130,"text":30},{"id":48,"depth":130,"text":49},{"id":69,"depth":130,"text":70},{"id":104,"depth":130,"text":105},{"label":254,"href":140},"See land use on a parcel report","AAFC's National Land Use product classifies every quarter section as cropland, grassland, forest, or settlement, with an IPCC group. 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Coverage extends across Alberta and Saskatchewan; the layer can be toggled as a full map overlay with the Agriculture Bundle.",[10,455,457],{"id":456},"how-to-use-it","How to use it",[15,459,460,463],{},[19,461,462],{},"For farmers checking a new lease."," Before signing, pull the report on the parcel. If the dominant crop is wheat-monoculture for five straight years, that's relevant - both for understanding what came off and for nitrogen\u002Fdisease pressure planning. If the rotation is canola-wheat-canola-wheat, that's a different signal.",[15,465,466,469],{},[19,467,468],{},"For agronomists prepping visits."," A territory of 20 parcels with dominant crop and diversity already in the report lets the agronomist build the visit list around what's actually growing - soybean visits in one cluster, canola in another.",[15,471,472,475,476,87],{},[19,473,474],{},"For carbon project developers."," The Alberta TIER Conservation Cropping protocol requires historical crop history per parcel. The per-parcel AAFC summary serves this directly without a manual GIS query against AAFC's published rasters. 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