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<br />001240 <br /> <br />Dr aft - 9/ S 1 <br /> <br />TABLE 1 <br /> <br />Land Use and Ownership of Colorado Land <br /> <br />LAN D 0 W N E R S HIP <br />Millions of Acres <br /> <br /> LAND USE Private State Federal Total <br />Irrigated Cropland 2.6 2.6 <br />Dry Cropland 7.5 7.5 <br />Total Cropland 10.2 0.1 10.3 <br />Grazing Land 23.3 2.7 13.1 39.1 <br />Total Agricultural Land" 34.1 2.8 13.1 50.0 <br /> . <br />Non - Ag r i cuI t u r a 1 Land 5. 1 0.3 11.0 16.4 <br />TOTAL LAND BASE 39.3 3.1 24.2 66.5 <br /> , <br /> <br />"27' <br /> <br />DefinitIons: The term farmland is synonymous with agricultural <br />land. Both refer to privately owned land used for producing <br />cr:0Ps or animal forage. .Farmland thus includes cropland, pasture <br />and rangeland when privately owned. Cropland denotes farmland <br />used for row crops (corn, sugar beets, potatoes, fruits, and <br />vegetables) and field crops (wheat, barley, sorghum), but does <br />not include hay lands or permanent pasture. . .the term irrigated <br />cropland is self-explanatory. To complicate matters slightly, <br />all irrigated land is not necessarily cropland; approximately <br />500',000 acres of permanent pasture are irrigated in Colorado each <br />vear. (See p. 1, Vol. I, op. cit.) These acres are included in <br />the Total Agricultural Landfigure above. <br /> <br />"Includes meadow hay land and other agricultural land. Totals may <br />vary due to rounding errors. <br /> <br />Source: <br /> <br />Colorado Department of Agriculture. <br /> <br />1979. Volume II. <br />