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': (\ ,-, (.. i v j (.\ 3 Figure 2: Farm labor and proprietor income. Percent of total income, Colorado, 1987. 80% i. 70% 80% J j ~ - . 1S I 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% 1be remaining 10 metropolitan counties or {(metropolitan statistical areas" are socially and economically integrated and contain a city of at least 50,000 population, Metropolitan counties lie along the front range from Pueblo County north to Larimer and Weld counties, Income in Farm Dependent and Farm Important Counties Table 1 shows the 1987 labor and proprietor income from farming in Colorado counties, along with the ~rr;;<I;~wz>-O;$O~~ w~!:i<~<iizoffi~< 1D3~~~~8~:!:bzli: o ZCl~ w:5 <0 r~ ~< ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~~8~~~~~~~2~ -' ll...tLN3:a::C1<<t-O ~-' Oil::! f-:i...J~O: o ::iz Z ID:::> a:: 0 ~~QCI < :; <Jla; direct government payment made to farmers and ranchers in those coun- ties under government farm pro- grams.' The counties are grouped in the four categories described above, The order of the counties shown in Table 1 is based on the fifth column, the percent that farm labor and proprietor income contributes to total income in each county. In the group of 17 farm depend- ent counties, labor and proprietor income from farming provides from 21 percent (prowers) to 76 percent OOO~ :5ii:1< ~WO ~~< 8~ Owz Z -' ~i?g ~ ~ ll...<cr.: -' ~ ffi~~ g <~ ~ ~ (Kiowa) of total county income ('fable 1), For the group of 17 farm depend.' ent counties, farm income averages 47 percent of total county income, This contribution declines to 14 percent in the farm lmpo$nt counties, Figure 2 illustrates these same percentages for all counties. For the state. farm labor and proprietor income makes 3 Specific sources oj data and the method- ology used in Table 1 and atl other tables oj this repori are described in detail in Appendix B,