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Corn is planted in Pinal County, Ariz., where growers stand to lose 60 percent of their Colorado River water under the state's Drought Contingency Plan.Andrew Hartman/Arizona Farm Bureau Federation
Arizona has 15 counties, all of them contributors in some way to agriculture in various forms. Yuma is known as “the Winter Leafy Greens Capitol of the World” while Santa Cruz County on the other end of the state is home to the internationally-known Green Valley Pecan Company.
In between is Pinal County, ranked within the Top 60 most-agriculturally–productive counties out of the 2,000 counties throughout America.
“In total, agriculture in all our counties generates $23.3 billion, an amount even larger than the state’s tourism industry,” says Stefanie Smallhouse, President of the 25,000-member Arizona Farm Bureau Federation.