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 [email protected]
Dr. Gregory [email protected]
For print copies and further information:
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
