Administrative County Farm Service Agency Code Profile

A county code of the administering county office.

The code is used within the Farm Service Agency (FSA) to identify a county, equivalent entity, or combination thereof within the United States, its possessions, and associated areas as defined within Handbook 1-CM, Exhibit 100.

Many of the code values used by are similar to County ANSI/FIPS Code, which follows the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) numeric INCITS 31-2009 and Federal Information Processing Standards Publications (FIPS Pub) 6-4 standard. The expanded even-numbered FSA codes identify counties that contain more than one office due to geographic considerations.

Specific values are documented in Handbook 1-CM. A machine-readable version can be found here
Property Definition
Example 001
Data Type Code String
Minimum Length Number 3
Maximum Length Number 3

Business Rules

Source Description
Acreage Crop Reporting This field is Mandatory
Acreage Crop Reporting The value must be a valid county for the applicable value in Administrative State FSA Code
Acreage Crop Reporting Must use active combinations of Administrative State FSA Code, Administrative County FSA Code, Farm Number, Tract Number, Field Number, and CLU Identifier per FSA Farm Records