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lG~2 5 Figure 3: Importance of government payments to tota/farm income, Colorado, 1987. 120% 110% 100% 90% 80% J 70% I 80% I 50% - . I 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% I r ~~~~~~3~6~~ffi~~~~~~ 5~<~~~o~~-o~w~~~~w 2~~~>~~~g~~g~~~~5~ ~ ~ ~~~w~~g 8~~~~ o ~ I-::c(l') (b OQ.w :r sz ~ ~ It up $788 million or 2.05 percent of the $38. 5 billion of total income for all sectors of Colorado, Table 1 also shows that direct payments to farmers and ranchers under government farm programs provide an important part of farm labor and proprietor income (columns 1 and 2), Such payments provided over 58 percent of farm earnings in the farm dependent counties and nearly 28 percent of farm earnings in the farm important counties, Without these payments, Logan and Phillips !za::~~l!:lZ>-O~Oi!Z ~~~~~~j~~~~~ o xg:e ~c( C1~ Cf :r: ~_ '" ~ <(Z~I-<OWu:lozt: t:u< it::i:u:l~::)og5 -'8ifLLFh:lt(!)~-o ~-' ~~ !i~aI~a: ~ ~ ~~~a Counties would have had negative farm income in 1987. Statewide, $342 million in government payments made up 43.37 percent of the total $788.6 million income in production agriculture, Figure 3 shows the relative importance of government payments to total farm earnings for all counties in the state, Income data for all the sectors making up the Colorado farm and food system are shown in Table 2, In the farm dependent counties total labor and proprietor income was ~a::ZI-Z~:'::ZO ~jE;~:5~~~ Ul~Q.i3z oc:l::!!: ~ ~ z rJ) i:i !t ;j ~ w ~ ~ ~ g roughly $821 million. Of this total, the farm input sector provided $31.2 million G,8 percent), production agriculture provided $385.8 million (46,9 percent of the total), and $10.9 million (1.3 percent) came from the processing sector, In total, the agri- business sector generated $427,928,000 in labor and proprietor income in the farm dependent counties. This is over 52 percent of the total income in these counties, The food wholesale and retail sector adds another $44.1 million so that the