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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />L") <br />- <br />~ <br />~J <br /> <br />Table 1 <br />Prices received by farmers <br /> <br />Item <br /> <br />Unit <br /> <br />Current <br />normalized <br />price l/ <br /> <br />Crops <br />Alfalfa <br />Feed barley <br />Wheat <br />Straw <br />Grass seed (Lumnar Pubescent) <br />Livestock <br />Cows (cull) Cwt 40.90 <br />Heifers (7-800 lbs) Cwt 59.20 <br />Heifers (4-500 lbs) Cwt 65.30 <br />Steers (4-500 lbs) Cwt 74.70 <br />1/ Normalized crop prices are the average of the last three data years <br />(1979=1981). Normalized livestock prices were determined by using the last <br />five data years' prices (1977-81), eliminating the highest and lowest price, <br />and then averaging the remaining three years. <br /> <br />Ton <br />Bu <br />Bu <br />Ton <br />Lb <br /> <br />$59.65 <br />2.78 <br />3.55 <br />29.67 <br />.845 <br /> <br />Prices paid <br /> <br />Prices paid for inputs generally increase over time in a rather uniform <br /> <br />manner. If this condition exists the normalized price is represented by the <br /> <br />last year of data. There are, however, some inputs such as seed, feed and <br /> <br />fertilizer that have fluctuating prices. In these cases a three year average <br /> <br />nermalized price was used. <br /> <br />Climate <br /> <br />The Yellow Jacket Project area has a semiarid climate. The average <br /> <br />annual precipitation is 16.5 inches with 5.3 inches of effective precipi- <br /> <br />tation falling during the growing season. This is enough annual moisture to <br /> <br />sustain a dry farm economy with about half of the land in production and the <br /> <br />other half in fallow storing moisture for crop production the following year. <br /> <br />Elevation in the project area ranges from 6,200 to 7,400 feet.' This <br /> <br />elevation with its accempanying frost free period (320F) of 102 day5limits <br /> <br />crop selection. Irrigated grasses, alfalfa, and small grains 'do excep- <br /> <br />4, <br />