Colorado

A Great Place to Grow

1930

Industry Profile• Monoculture - • Ranching – • Horticulture – 11% of all

agriculture sales• Horticulture Industry

– Multi-site – Dutch Heritage, Welby Gardens, Tagawa Gardens

– Single Site – Echter’s, Youngs,Novacek, Non-profit – Revision International, Growhaus,

– Networks and Co-ops -

Year Number of Farms

1880 2,000

1900 16,000

1930 62,000

1950 47,000

1970 30,500

1990 26,500

2001 30,900

2011 36,100

References

• http://milehighconnects.org/equity-atlas.html• http://pubs.usgs.gov/imap/i-2760/i-2760pam.

pdf• http://lib.colostate.edu/research/agbib/

search.html• http://pubs.usgs.gov/imap/i-2760/i-2760_sh2

.pdf• http://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State

/Colorado/Publications/Annual_Statistical_Bulletin/bulletin2011.pdf