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Show PART II PRESENT STATUS OF IRRIGATION Table 14 on the foregoing page shows that in 1964 there were 1,858 farms in the Upper Colorado Region which contained 200 or more acres of irrigated land and that 513 of these farms contained 500 acres or more. Only 164 farms, however, had 1,000 or more acres of irrigated land. The modal number of acres of irrigated land per farm is 10 to 49 acres. The Green River Subregion has more farms with 1,000 acres or more of irri- gated land than does either the Upper Main Stem or San Juan-Colorado Sub- region. The Upper Main Stem Subregion has the greatest occurrence of farms with only 1 to 9 acres of irrigated land per farm. About 85 percent of the region's farms is classified as commercial although 27 percent of the commercial farms had sales of less than $5,000 in 1964. Gross sales were $40,000 or more for 473 farms (Table 15). Table 15 - Number of commercial and noncommercial farms by class--1964 Economic Commercial classesi/ Total commer- Noncommercial Subregion and State Class I Class II Class III Class IV Class V cial farms Class Vl2? Total farms Green River Colorado Utah Wyoming 79 *e 81 113 68 97 180 196 233 190 307 263 120 345 176 682 959 850 50 237 61 732 1,196 911 Subtotal 203 278 609 760 641 2,491 348 2,fe9 Upper Main Stem Colorado Utah 209 3 395 3 696 4 807 4 759 10 2,866 24 545 9 3,411 33 Subtotal 212 398 700 811 769 2,890 554 3,W* San Juan-Colorado Colorado New Mexico Utah 32 6 20 108 13 36 214 33 7^ 237 56 133 251 73 149 842 181 412 196 65 73 1,038 246 485 Subtotal 58 157 321 426 473 1,435 334 1,769 Total 473 833 1,630 1,997 1,883 6,816 1,236 8,052 1/ Based on total value of products sold. Farms with value of sales amounting to $2,500 or more were classified as commercial. Class I-Sales of $40,000 or more. Class II--Sales of $20,000 to $39,999. Class III-Sales of $10,000 to $19,999- Class IV-Sales of $5,000 to $9,999- Class V-Sales of $2,500 to $4,999. 2/ Class VI--Sales of $50 to $2,499, provided the farm operator was under 65 years of age and he did not work off the farm 100 days or more. Source: U.S. Census of Agriculture. |