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3.0 SETTING
Table 3-6 Farm and Farm-Related Employment, 2002
Farm
Total 1 Metro Nonmetro
industries Employment % of total Employment % of total Employment % of total
Farming:
Farm
production 12,397 3.66 1,381 1.35 11,016 4.64
Farm
proprietors 8,870 2.62 870 0.85 8,000 3.37
Farm Wage &
Salary Workers 3,527 1.04 511 0.50 3,016 1.27
Closely related:
Agricultural
services 1,611 0.48 348 0.34 1,263 0.53
Agricultural
inputs
industries 763 0.22 88 0.09 675 0.28
Agricultural
processing and
marketing 1,191 0.35 49 0.05 1,142 0.48
Peripherally related:
Agricultural
wholesale &
retail trade 31,807 9.38 9,372 9.19 22,435 9.46
Indirect
agribusiness 506 0.15 3 0.00 503 0.21
Total farm &
farm-related
employment 48,275 14.24 11,241 11.03 37,034 15.61
All other
employment 290,846 85.76 90,705 88.97 200,141 84.39
Total
employment 339,121 100.00 101,946 100.00 237,175 100.00
1 Metro and nonmetro detail may not add to total because of some employment not classified by location.
Metro and nonmetro estimates are based on the June 2003 metropolitan area definitions.
Data are based on the 1997 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
Source: Most industry estimates were developed from an enhanced file of the County Business Patterns, U.S. Bureau of the Census. Farm
proprietors and farm wage and salary workers are from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce.
Agriculture
Wyoming’s agriculture is dominated by livestock production: $798,800,000 in cash receipts came
from livestock and related products in 2000 compared to cash receipts from crops of $160,600,000
(Equality State Almanac, 2006). Much of agriculture’s water use is tied to production of forage and feed
base for the livestock industry. Agriculture consumptively uses more water than any other economic
sector. The river basin studies show total irrigated lands of about 2,070,406 acres while the 2002 Census
of Agriculture, Farm and Ranch Irrigation Survey shows 1,541,688 acres. The 1997 Census of
Agriculture reported 1,749,908 acres irrigated. The difference in census data may be due to the drought
conditions, categories reported, non-responders, and idle lands not being reported.
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