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APPENDIX B. 

 Places With All Cropland In the Conservation Reserve 



Program 



The Food Security Act of 1985 established the 

 Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). This program 

 provides annual payments for highly erodible cropland 

 enrolled in the program and meeting its conservation 

 requirements. It also requires that the land be taken out 

 of agricultural production for 10 years. 



The 1987 Census of Agriculture includes Conservation 

 Reserve acreage as land in farms on operations that 

 meet the census farm definition. For census purposes, 

 a farm is any place from which agricultural products of 

 $1,000 or more were produced and sold or normally 

 would have been sold during the census year. 

 Operations which placed all of their cropland in the CRP 

 and did not otherwise meet the farm definition based 

 upon sales, livestock inventories, planted crops, or other 

 criteria for potential sales were not included as farms in 

 the census tabulations. 



The following table provides CRP data for places not 

 meeting the census farm definition ("whole farm" CRP 

 places). It also contains separate but corresponding 

 CRP data for farms included in the census tabulations. 

 In addition to State data, detailed county data are 

 presented for counties with three or more"whole farm" 

 CRP places reported. For counties with less than three 

 "whole farm" CRP places reported, their data are 

 combined and reported in "all other counties." 



The data for "whole farm" CRP places are not 

 complete for all counties. The census mail list was 

 developed from sources which indicated the farm had 

 agricultural production activity. It was not designed to 

 cover all "whole farm" CRP places. Therefore, the data 

 for these places are limited to what was reported in the 

 census and have not been adjusted to account for 

 nonresponse, incomplete coverage, and reporting errors. 



Land in Conservation Reserve Program: 1987 



[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text] 



Geograptiic area 



Agricultural places excluded by farm definition with acres 

 in the CRP 



Land in places 

 (acres) 



Land in CRP 

 (acres) 



Farms with acres in the CRP 



Land in farms 

 (acres) 



Land in CRP 

 (acres) 



Colorado 



Adams 



Arapahoe 



Baca 



Bent 



Boulder 



Cheyenne 



Crowley 



Dolores 



Elbert _. 



El Paso 



Jefferson 



Kiowa 



Kit Carson 



La Plata 



Las Animas 



Lincoln 



Logan 



Mesa 



Moffat 



Montezuma 



Morgan 



Prowers 



Pueblo - 



Routt 



Washington 



Weld 



Yuma 



All other counties.. 



1 888 

 4 265 



24 036 



3 109 

 439 



6 444 

 555 



4 414 

 3 337 



728 



821 



17 651 



3 764 



3 662 



640 



2 132 

 281 



1 221 



4 263 



2 138 



5 642 



3 083 

 2 Oil 



980 

 5 355 

 2 512 

 1 435 



1 616 



3 965 

 22 481 



2 766 

 439 



4 857 

 505 



2 886 



3 122 

 728 

 615 



17 281 

 3 417 

 2 575 



637 

 2 083 



281 



1 105 



2 824 

 2 949 



2 005 



5 423 



3 033 



1 820 

 967 



4 437 



2 377 

 1 109 



36 

 36 

 232 

 39 

 4 

 88 

 31 

 42 

 63 

 35 



88 



101 



25 



38 



99 



54 



7 



33 



34 



39 



103 



33 



20 



98 



92 



81 



115 



101 602 

 92 199 



566 321 



266 513 

 4 539 



245 970 

 80 521 

 40 193 



224 500 

 92 929 



319 736 



270 904 



32 800 



254 795 



364 312 



123 300 



1 315 



120 624 



37 302 



59 573 



423 720 



89 073 



47 343 



240 702 



233 394 



201 358 



275 037 



15 196 

 15 316 

 161 187 

 22 879 

 549 

 49 245 



12 316 



13 852 

 27 313 



9 412 



65 843 

 35 354 



5 466 

 18 205 

 54 179 

 11 976 



883 

 24 464 

 10 321 



6 215 

 80 525 

 29 273 



14 377 

 32 271 

 48 610 

 14 233 

 32 330 



1987 CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE 



APPENDIX B B-1 



