Agriculture

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There is a new Cattle Marketing Web Site that is put together by Dr. Dillon Feuz, USU Extension Specialist,

Department of Applied Economics. It offers Box beef prices, fed cattle prices, breakeven analysis, and much more. Try it out at http://cattlemarketanalysis.org/

Duchesne County is located in the Uintah Basin which is in Eastern Utah. It has a agriculture base of mainly cattle, hay and sheep.

This base includes:

· 30,651 head of beef cows

· 7,525 head of sheep

· 46,079 acres of hay

· 3,309 acres of corn

The total value of crops and livestock products produced in 2002 was $46,047,000

The USU Extension office in Duchesne County offers a wide range of materials and resources related to livestock, crops, soils, agriculture profitability, weed control, farm and ranch management, range, home horticulture, gardening, insects and water management.

Please feel free to browse through the links. If you have suggestions on topics that would be of interest to Duchesne County producers please contact us by phone, email, or stop in the office.

Soils and forage testing
Agribusiness
Weeds
Pests
Animal Heath
Horses
Fertilizing Alfalfa
Spring 2009
Fall 2009