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<br />
<br />Irrigation
<br />
<br />
<br />I
<br />
<br />
<br />Watering alfalfa with side-roll.type sprinklers
<br />
<br />
<br />Beet farmers compare yield.
<br />
<br />During the 1983 irrigation season, CRSP participating projects delivered 273,607 acre-feet of water. Total gross
<br />crop value from 116,406 acres of irrigafed farm land was $20,148,382 equaling $2,03620 per irrigated acre. The
<br />table shows ligures by project for calendar year 1983.
<br />
<br />State and project
<br />
<br />Colorado:
<br />Bostwick Park
<br />Florida
<br />Paonia
<br />Silt
<br />Smith Fork
<br />
<br />Ufah:
<br />CUP
<br />Bonneville
<br />Vernal
<br />
<br />New Mexico'
<br />Hammond
<br />
<br />Wyoming:
<br />Lyman
<br />
<br />Total
<br />
<br />14
<br />
<br />Irrigable
<br />area
<br />for
<br />service
<br />(acres)
<br />
<br />Area
<br />irrigated
<br />(acres)
<br />
<br />1983
<br />
<br />Gross crop value (dollars)
<br />To date
<br />
<br />Irrigated
<br />(Per acre)
<br />
<br />First
<br />year
<br />
<br />5,180 4,246 3,733 695,360 164,000 8,118,100 1979
<br />19,450 14,484 24,453 2,395,601 165.40 30,253,100 1964
<br />15,300 10,796 57,950 4,162,133 405,15 57,589,296 1951
<br />7,044 5,322 16,824 945,876 178.90 12,495,405 1968
<br />9.479 8,924 10,925 1,199,791 134.44 15,510,479 1963
<br />
<br />Delivered
<br />to farms
<br />(acre-feet)
<br />
<br />Total
<br />
<br />Accumulated
<br />
<br />26,046 17,615 85,841 4,511,967 415,QQ 34,183,203 1972
<br />14,700 13,848 51,238 3,073,015 221.00 31,058,996 1963
<br />3,933 3,055 15,893 864,655 292,85 11,932,003 1962
<br />38,678 38,116 6,750 2,299,984 59.46 16,980,046 1972
<br />139,810 116,406 273,607 $20,148,382 $2,036.20 $218,120,628
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