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The Value Chain of Colorado Agriculture

1. Build a Business-friendly Environment

2. Recruit, Retain, and Grow Companies

3. Improve Access to Capital

4. Create and Market a Stronger Colorado Brand

5. Educate and Train the Workforce of the Future

6. Cultivate Innovation and Technology

“…an unprecedented effort to engage every county in Colorado on how best to improve the state’s economy…”

- Gov. John Hickenlooper

Engagement Research Engagement

Changes the conversation

Generates economic-development

impacts

Flowchart of the Value Chain of

Colorado Agriculture

$27.5 billion

$4.8 billion

$88 million

$10.5 billion

$4.0 billion

$3.0 billion

$2.4 billion

$0.9 billion

Encompasses more than 200 individual sectors or NAICS codes.

Engagement Research Engagement

Changes the conversation

Generates economic-development

impacts

1. Build a Business-friendly Environment

2. Recruit, Retain, and Grow Companies

3. Improve Access to Capital

4. Create and Market a Stronger Colorado Brand

5. Educate and Train the Workforce of the Future

6. Cultivate Innovation and Technology

1. Build a Business-friendly Environment

2. Recruit, Retain, and Grow Companies

3. Improve Access to Capital

4. Create and Market a Stronger Colorado Brand

5. Educate and Train the Workforce of the Future

6. Cultivate Innovation and Technology

Top 25 Colorado assignees of patents in agricultural and food technologies

1. Build a Business-friendly Environment

2. Recruit, Retain, and Grow Companies

3. Improve Access to Capital

4. Create and Market a Stronger Colorado Brand

5. Educate and Train the Workforce of the Future

6. Cultivate Innovation and Technology

1. Build a Business-friendly Environment

2. Recruit, Retain, and Grow Companies

3. Improve Access to Capital

4. Create and Market a Stronger Colorado Brand

5. Educate and Train the Workforce of the Future

6. Cultivate Innovation and Technology

Thank You!

Kathay RennelsKathay.Rennels@ColoState.edu970.491.7304

Dr. Gregory GraffGregory.Graff@ColoState.edu970.491.4028

For print copies and further information:

Jim BeersJim.Beers@colostate.edu970.491.2332

This project was made possible by support from the Colorado

Department of Agriculture and the Colorado State University

Office of Engagement.

Full report available online at:http://outreach.colostate.edu