Census of
Agriculture 1997 from the National
Agricultural Statistics Service. Some material is available in
.pdf format only. The highlights by county are available in text
format and include 1997 and 1992 data for comparative purposes.
The highlights
include data on the number of farms, the amount of land in farms,
value of land and buildings, value of machinery and equipment,
number of farms by size, market value of agricultural products
sold, data on livestock and poultry, and selected crops.
Colorado
Agriculture Census: Interactive Data Retrieval covering 1987,
1992, 1997. The data are available for the state and its counties
in 39 tables: summary highlights; market value and farms by SIC;
farm production expenses; net cash return and government payments;
hired farm labor-workers and payroll; farms, land in farms, value
of land; harvested cropland by size of farm; irrigation; machinery
and equipment on place; agricultural chemicals used and
fertilizer; tenure, characteristics and organization; farms with
sales of 10K or more; selected crops; cattle and calves--inventory
and sales; hogs and pigs--litters, inventory and sales;
poultry--inventory and sales; sheep and lambs--inventory, shorn,
and sales; horses and ponies--inventory and sales; milk
goats--inventory and sales; angora goats--inventory and sales;
mink and their pelts--inventory and sales; colonies of bees and
honey--inventory and sales; fish sales; miscellaneous
poultry--inventory and sales; miscellaneous livestock and animal
specialties; graines-corn, sorghum, wheat; cotton, tobacco,
soybeans, dry beans; seeds, hay, forage, and silage; vegetables,
sweet corn and melons; land in orchards; fruits and nuts; berries
harvested for sale; nursery and greenhouse crops, sod; other
crops; black and other races by sales, occupation; black and other
races by tenure; selected racial groups; operators of Spanish
origin; and farms with grazing permits.
Colorado
Agriculture: A Profile--data on the land area in farms,
operators by tenure, size, age group, and economic sales. It
also includes a national ranking of Colorado products,
statistics on crop production and livestock inventories, cash
receipts by commodity, and farm sector indicators such as
production expenses by type, farm assets, equity, and
debt.
Publications, including Ag Reports, Weekly Crop Progress,
County Crop Statistics and other publications containing
statistical data about current agricultural production.
Provides the Colorado Agricultural Statistics Bulletin from
1997 to the most recent.
Historical
United States Census Browser Provides state and county level
data for the 1790-1970 censuses. The first census of Colorado was
taken in 1870. Although the data varies by census, a census may
include statistics on education, employment, agriculture, general
population characteristics, housing, manufacturing, place of
birth, and retail and wholesale businesses. Includes options for
sorting data and graphing.
