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Healthy Economy
Did you know that Utah’s farmers and ranchers sell about 1.5 billion dollars of product?
Did you know that farmers and ranchers, processors and other agriculture-related businesses employ over 66,000 people and represent about 14% of Utah’s economy?
Yet, working farmers and ranchers are struggling to make a living. Nowadays, many children of working farmers are simply choosing other occupations.
This could prove disastrous for many of Utah’s rural communities. And since the economies of rural and urban communities are connected, what hurts rural communities eventually impacts everyone.
In order to help maintain a healthy economy in Utah, we need to preserve local farms and ranches. Click to find out what you can do and visit our Facebook page.