Document Type
Full Issue
Publication Date
11-1936
Abstract
A large portion of the agriculture of Utah, outside of the desert range areas, is characteristically heterogeneous rather than homogeneous in character. Marked differences in size of farm, in crops grown, in livestock kept, in yields, and in farm organization occur within short distances. This diversity is due in large measure to differences in soil, elevation, topography, and other physical features and to climatic characteristics such as amount, kind, and distribution of precipitation and length of growing season. The physical and climatic features are the chief determinants of the amount of water potentially available for the irrigation of the crop lands of the state and for the production of the forage resources on the vast areas on which the only possible agricultural utilization is the grazing of livestock. Superimposed upon the pattern of land utilization produced by these natural forces are the cultural features engendered by the economic and social forces which have in some par ts of the state so greatly altered the natural landscape.
Recommended Citation
Clawson, Marion; Fuhriman, Walter U.; Blanch, George T.; and Thomas, W. Preston, "Bulletin No. 275 - Types of Farming in Utah" (1936). UAES Bulletins. Paper 237.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/uaes_bulletins/237