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Why would the USDA need a map like this for the whole world? Sus.
E: Lots of down votes but nobody has a good answer eh?
The USA does not produce agricultural products in a vacuum. We live in a time of global markets requiring global intelligence to support the decisions of local agriculture. The war in Ukraine has been a pretty clear lesson on that topic.
Also, the US has a history of building and supporting infrastructure projects that are global in reach and benefit, even if they were executed with American interests first. This mostly takes the form of global scientific data products made public. GPS is another high profile project originally designed to benefit the U.S. and later made publically available not just to U.S. citizens and interests, but globally public.
Why do they do it? Obviously because the U.S. is an evil empire bent on global dominance and destruction. /s
Ty
Since we're both too lazy to fucking find the correct answer, I'll just make something up:
The USDA needs this soil quality map of the whole world because it plans to terraform the planet into a globally spanning corn field, including draining all of the oceans and planting corn there as well. All human life will cease to exist, and the cornullar life forms that will propagate this future world will ensure our bones will be transformed into their fuel to explore the stars beyond.
Planning on taking over the world, obviously.