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KSL Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017
Agriculture Adds $21 Billion to Utah's Economy
Utah's agricultural sector pumped more than $21 billion into the state's economy, according to an analysis of 2014 numbers, making it just slightly more than 15 percent of the state's total financial output. ... An analysis of the most recent numbers available performed by Utah State University and released Tuesday detailed direct and indirect impacts of production agriculture, the agriculture processing sector and food manufacturing. ... Raising crops and revenue derived from the sale of livestock generated $2.4 billion, while the agricultural processing sector produced $10.7 billion. Indirect impacts and rippling effects of the industry also combine to bring the total jobs in the agricultural sector to close to 80,000 workers.