Agricultural Resources and Environmental Indicators: Irrigation Water Management—Efficient irrigation systems and water management practices can help maintain farm profitability in an era of increasingly limited and more costly water supplies. Improved water management practices may also reduce the impact of irrigated production on offsite water quantity and quality, and conserve water for growing nonagricultural demands.

Western Irrigated Agriculture—Irrigation is critical to agriculture in the United States: nearly half of the value of all crops sold comes from the 16 percent of harvested cropland that is irrigated. This data product summarizes farm structural characteristics for irrigated farms in the 17 Western States based on the Farm and Ranch Irrigation Survey.

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• Western Irrigated Agriculture