Slow Food® Utah

INFORMATION – AGRICULTURE & FOOD

Data and Information Regarding Agriculture and Food, providing an overview of agriculture in Utah.

• Agricultural Statistical Information for Utah
• Includes statistical information about land, farms, farm characteristics (economic, land & crops, organization), and agricultural commodities produced in Utah.
• Information compiled from the U.S. Department of Agriculture:
• National Agricultural Statistical Service: 2002 Census of Agriculture State Profile – Utah.
• Economic Research Service: State Fact Sheets – Utah.
• Utah Agricultural Statistics Service: Data from the 2002 Census of Agriculture.
• Agricultural Marketing Service: State Marketing Profiles: Utah.
• National Agricultural Statistics Service: Census, US – State Data (Utah).
• Agricultural Cash Receipts by Source – Livestock & Crops, for Counties in Utah (2005)
• Details total cash receipts for each county in Utah for livestock and crops in general.
• Information compiled from the 2007 Economic Report to the Governor: Chapter 17: Agriculture – Table 80: "Cash Receipts by Source."
• "Farming on the Edge: Sprawling Development Threatens America’s Best Farmland – Utah" provides a visualization of the impacts and pressures being placed on prime farmland in Utah.
• Map (PDF, Updated March, 2003)

  

  "In 1997, American Farmland Trust released a study that showed the geographic relationship between high quality farmland and land development pressure in the United States. To do this, we used the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Resources Inventory. That study used the unit of Major Land Resource Areas to determine where the most threatened farmland lay throughout the United States.

  But how was each STATE doing? This 2002 map, "Farming on the Edge: Sprawling Development Threatens Our Best Farmland," analyzes how actual land use changes are affecting each state’s share of the nation’s high–quality farmland. State by state, the areas in red represent concentrations of prime and/or unique farmland coinciding with that state’s most rapidly developing area(s)..."

  "Red areas on the map signal rapid development and a potential threat to high quality farmland. One should take care in interpreting the map, remembering that high–quality farmland areas are relative to their state benchmarks." Read more about "Farming on the Edge: Methodology"

  Part of the Farmland Information Center and the American Farmland Trust in Washington, D.C.