Data and Analysis Code for Irrigation Expansion in the US Corn Belt: Deines et al. 2026

This codebase accompanies the paper: Deines, JM, S Baur, A Kendall, A Hadjimichael, & R Hetland. 2026. Irrigation expansion in the US Corn Belt: Patterns and yield impacts. Earth's Future. Data and code at time of publication. Preferred citation is the above journal manuscript. Mirror of Github: https://github.com/jdeines/Deines_etal_2026_EarthsFuture_irrigationExpansion Supporting datasets include: Formatted Input for Figures (csv summaries of causal forest output) Cleaned master data sample (as csv and RData files) Intermediate and output causal forest objects Full 2017 USDA Census Download