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