Labor and Machinery Inputs and Practices, and Irrigation Water Use and Practices for Crop Production, Sevier River Basin, Utah

Excerpts from the report: This report is a subsidiary to an economic analysis of the Sevier River Basin. This material was prepared to make available detailed information on labor, machine, and irrigation inputs that were not included in a report on the "Agricultural Economy of the Sevier River Basin." Data are for the crop year 1962. As a basis for sampling, the Sevier River Basin was divided into four “economic areas," to account for differences in climate and agricultural conditions. A list of all farm operators in each economic area was compiled. Farms were classified into broad types based on the major crop or livestock enterprises. Table 1 gives the number and classification of farms by economic area. The population from which a sample was surveyed included 2,821 of the 3,052 farmers in the basin. The number of farmers interviewed by type of farm and economic area are shown in table 2. The farm survey included 55 farmers in area 1, 103 in area II, 92 in area III, and 67 in area IV, for a basin total of 317 farm operators. These figures represent a 13.1 percent sample in area I, 9.7 percent in area II, 11.1 percent in area III, and 8.4 percent in area IV, for an over-all sample of 10.4 percent of the farmers in the basin.