C150150 Market Report

• Contract/PO #: C150150
• Contractor Name: Lower Arkansas Water Management Association
• Contract Type: Loan
• Water District: 67
• County: Bent
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

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agriculture will continue to be the main economic activity in the county. Therefore, water for irrigated
agriculture will continue to be a central part of the economy.

c. Markets

Crops grown in Bent and Prowers Counties are marketed from the farm generally to a processor
as follows:

Alfalfa - is marketed locally and to Kansas, New Mexico, and Texas. The high quality product
is cut, placed under shelters, and marketed in the winter as cubed or baled hay and used to feed cattle in
both feedlots and dairies. Almost all of the crop is consumed annually.

Com - is grown and marketed locally. There are several large cattle feed lots and a number of
confmed swine feeding operationsOin the area that consume. much of the grain. grown in the area.

Wheat - is marketed through elevators at Lamar or at smaller elevators in other communities up
and down the Arkansas River Valley. From the elevators, wheat is shipped to the maj or wheat terminals
for processing.

Fruits and vegetables - there are numerous market facilities in the Arkansas Valley that process
and market onions, melons, and other truck crops.

Bent and Prowers Counties' livestock, other than swine, are usually marketed at sales facilities in
La Junta, or directly from the farm or ranch to packers in the Garden City, Kansas, area, or to local
feeders, or to the plains area of western Kansas.

II. PROPERTY INTEREST VALUED

Water Rights consisting offour and one-half cubic feet per second (4.5 c.f.s.) of the nine cubic feet
per second (9 c.f.s.) decreed to the Keesee Ditch by the Bent County District Court on July 1, 1895, in
the original adjudication proceedings in Water District No. 67 as Priority No.1 with an appropriation date
of March 13, 1871. Two and one-quarter cubic feet per second (2.25 c.f.s.) of a total of four and one-half
cubic feet per second (4.5 c.f.s.) decreed to the Keesee Ditch by the Bent County District Court on July
1,1895, in the original adjudication proceedings in Water District No. 67 as Priority No. 4 with an
appropriation date of December 31, 1883. Seven and one-half cubic feet per second (7.5 c.f.s.) of a total
of fIfteen cubic feet per second (15 c.f.s.) decreed to the Keesee Ditch by the Bent County District Court
on October 14, 1918, in a supplemental adjudication proceeding in Water District No. 67, with an
appropriation date of September 3, 1893.

One-half(~) of the Keesee Ditch storage account in John Martin Reservoir established by the
1980 Operating Plan for John Martin Reservoir, which plan was adopted as a Resolution of the Arkansas
River Compact Commission on April 24, 1980, and amended on May 10, 1984, and December 11, 1984.

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