Ag Facts
Beef has Zip! Zinc, Iron and Protein. Protein from beef provides nine essential amino acids that your body can’t make on its own.
Wyoming is a “Headwaters” State. This means that many rivers begin in Wyoming. Wyoming is the headwater of four major water drainage basins.
Production agriculture only requires 69 cents of services for each dollar of local tax revenue paid. Compare this to rural residential lands demanding $2.40 in services for each dollar of local tax revenue paid.
(Source: University of Wyoming, College of Agriculture, Dept. of Agricultural and Applied Economics)
Farmers and ranchers provide critical winter habitat for 75% of Wyoming’s wildlife.
Wyoming’s Land: 4% of Wyoming’s land is Indian trust land.
Wyoming’s Land: 6% of Wyoming’s land is state owned.
Wyoming’s Land: 42% of Wyoming’s land is privately owned.
Wyoming’s Land: 48% of Wyoming’s total land area is federally owned.
Wyoming is predominantly rural, with 37 percent of its residents living in communities of 2,500 people or less.
Wyoming Agriculture Statistics 2010
Wyoming has 11,000 farms and ranches which average 2,736 acres in size.
Wyoming Agriculture Statistics 2010
Wyoming has nearly 30.1 million acres of land used for production agriculture.
Wyoming Agriculture Statistics 2010
Wyoming ranks 17th nationwide in alfalfa hay.
Wyoming Agriculture Statistics 2010
Wyoming ranks 15th nationwide in beef cow numbers.
Wyoming Agriculture Statistics 2010
Wyoming ranks 5th nationwide in barley.
Wyoming Agriculture Statistics 2010
Wyoming ranks 5th nationwide in pinto beans and ninth nationwide in all dry beans.
Wyoming Agriculture Statistics 2010
Wyoming ranks 3rd nationwide in all sheep and lamb production and 4th nationwide in market sheep and lambs.
Wyoming Agriculture Statistics 2010
Wyoming ranks 2nd nationwide in wool production.
Wyoming Agriculture Statistics 2010
Wyoming ranks 1st nationwide in average size of farms and ranches.
Wyoming Agriculture Statistics 2010
$943 million: The value of the Agriculture industry in Wyoming.
Wyoming Agriculture Statistics 2010