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NEEDS AND PROBLEMS Determination of needs was made for separate functional uses of water and land. These are: Agriculture, Municipal and Industrial Water Supply, Electric Power, Flood Control, Nevigation, Recreation, and Fish and Wildlife. AGRICULTURE Agriculture occupies an important position, economically, both nationally and basinwide. In 1964 about 5.1 billion dollars worth of farm products were:marketed in the Missouri Basin. This is about 15 percent of the Nation's total. Agriculture can be expected to continue as an important segment of the economy of the basin. The projections for the Missouri Basin were part of the disaggregated national demands for flood and fiber. These were prepared by the Economic Research Service for the Nation as a whole based on economic projections and many other factors, and were disaggregated to the basin. The amount assigned to the Missouri Basin by this procedure is illustrated by the following two graphs which show the projected requirements for meat and for grains for the Missouri Basin. These amount to nearly three times current production. Estimated future projected crop yields were estimated for various crops both non-irrigated and irrigated. These projections over the 60-year period from 1960 to 2020 vary from approximately 140 percent to just over 200 percent of the current normal yields. There are over 60 million acres of land considered irrigable in the Missouri River Basin. . In the Missouri Basin there are two factors which must be considered for future agricultural production, for meeting future needs: one is the need for food and fiber to feed the growing population in the Nation and to meet ex~ort requirements; and the other, whicn is most important, is the need for stabilizing the agricultural economy and the economic efficiencies that may be realized through irrigation developments. FORESTRY PRODUCTION In view of an increasing supply of suitable species and raw wood products and of increasing local and national demands for them, a ,major increase in the production of forest products ia anticipated over the next 50 years. The assumed saw timber cut in these projections will allow inventory volumes of growth to rise from 554 million board feet in 1962 to 1,354 million in the year 2020. This will equal saw timber growth by 2020, but during the projection periods the inventory will:have increased by 11,000 million board feet. Total timber cut is expected to increase from about 104 million cubic feet in 1962 to about 400 million cubic feet by 2020. If good timber management is practiced, timber cutting may weil increase more. 22