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Agri-Business Income By County ($1,000) Pueblo County 51,483 Bent County 9,937 Prowers County 37,291 Chaffee County 2,015 Otero County 34,792 Fremont CountY 2,012 ~ Crowley County 14,727 Lake County 56 - Labor and proprietor (owner and operator of an agri-business) income is one indication of agriculture's importance within the eight counties and Colorado. The labor and proprietor income in 1992 for all agri-business was $152,313,000 in the eight counties and $2,295,000,000 in Colorado. Farm production accounted for $98,385,000 and $873 million in the eight counties and Colorado, respectively. The agri-business dependency of any particular county is the agri-business income as a percent of total income within a county. Counties receiving over 20% of total county income from agribusiness industries are considered "agri-business dependent". Those counties receiving 1 0% to 20% of total county income from agribusiness industries are considered "agribusiness important". Colorado has nine counties classified as agribusiness dependent and 11 counties as agribusiness important. The data it shows that Jefferson county and Kiowa county are the two most agri-dependent counties in the state of Colorado. Crowley Agribusiness Dependency by County 29.4% Pueblo 17.3% Chaffee 2.6% Prowers 1.1% Bent 11.9% Fremont 0.5% Otero 11.2% Lake 0.1% In closing, I would like to point out that there is a publication written and available from CSU Cooperative Extension and Experiment Station regarding the "Colorado Farm and Food System" and its contribution to the state's economy. It contains all the data discussed above. Please contact my office for a copy. I would like to add that I did not use any multiplier effect. Dr. Dana Hoag, who spends quite a bit of his time at CSU looking arthe food and fiber system and ag policy issues, cautions against using multiplier effects on a wide scale system like this. Multipliers cause the data and intrepretations to become too general and inconslusive. It would be incorrect to use a multiplier of 2 times 3.7 million dollars of gross sales and get the effect. Rather, a multiplier of 2 would allow you to show that if sales were increase by $100,000 dollars, the impact of that 100,000 would then become 200,000. I've tried to point out some aspects of the economic value of the river to the eight counties within the river valley. I believe that the river plays an important role in the economy and society of the Arkansas River basin. Arkansas River Basin Water Forum 32 itA River of Dreams and Realities"