Irrigated Agriculture

Apropos of nothing except that I’m fascinated by the interplay between agriculture and urbanization in the West, I ran across this data this evening in the Census of Agriculture (and if I blog it here, I can Google it and find it later):

Irrigated agricultural acreage in Bernalillo County (that’s the county in which Albuquerque sits):

  • 1987: 7.445
  • 1992: 10,042
  • 1997: 11,021
  • 2002: 7,952

1992 and 1987 data

1997 data

2002 data