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0012~1 Dr aft - 9/ 8 1 percent)8 is considered grazing land. Second, the federal gov- ernment owns 36.3 percent of Colorado's land (2",152,057 acres). Third, more than two th irds of the state's pr ivate land (51." j:lercent of the state's total area, or 34,168,000 acres) is listed as grazing land. Only about one third of the privately owned cropland is under irrigation; the majority of the state's crop- land is not irrigated. With so much of the state's land area devoted to grazing, livestock production clearly outweighs all other agricultural sectors combined, accounting for more than half of the state's annual agricultural cash receipts. When other types of live- stock, especially sheep, hogs, and turkeys, are inciuded, 73.1 percent of all Colorado agricultural cash receipts result from ~" , ~ livestock and livestock products. FIgure 2 shows the relative proportions of major sectors. It should be noted that winter wheat (Le., dryland wheat) is second only to the cattle industry in gross cash receipts. The state's top commodities, in order, are cattle and calves, winter wheat, corn, sugar beets, sheep and ~ lambs, hay, hogs, pinto beans, turkeys and barley. Current trends in agricultural production are also of vital interest in terms of water. The potent ial expansion of agrIcul- ture in each hydrologIc region (to be dIscussed in Chapter 5) will depend on a variety of conditions, in addition to water supplies, which are critical to the development of a healthy 8The percentages listed in the text were computed using unrounded data. This may lead to slight variance with any rounded data from Table 1 which the reader may use to compute percentages. Also, the total drea listed in the section on Topography is higher because it includes both land dnd water surface ared. 9