Abstract
This document provides the raw data for the manuscript titled "Spatial Dairy and Cropland Distribution for Optimal Dairy Manure Management in Idaho", including (1) Optimal Dairy Distribution Data: This dataset includes values for variables including the number of milk cows, total cropland area, and cropland area dedicated to alfalfa hay, barley, corn, potatoes, sugar beets, and wheat for Idaho in 1997 and 2022 at both state and county levels. (2) This dataset comprises the irrigated and non-irrigated acreage in Idaho for alfalfa hay, barley, and wheat for 1997 and 2007. (3) This dataset includes values for the nutrient uptake capacity for the main crops grown in Idaho (alfalfa hay, barley, corn, potatoes, sugar beets, and wheat). The values were obtained from the University of Idaho Crop Budgets. For the early part of the observation period, data were sourced from Patterson (2003) for all crops. For the later part of the observation period, they were obtained from Eborn (2017) for potatoes and Westerhold (2019a, 2019b, 2019d, 2019e, 2019f, 2019g, 2019h) for the other crops.