RESEARCH & IRRIGATION


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he Irrigation Association, Fairfax, Virginia, and the Irrigation Innovation Consortium, Fort Collins, Colorado, released the


results of its second economic impact study in December 2021.


The 2020 economic impact study, which is available on the Irrigation Association website, revealed a booming agriculture and landscape irrigation industry with an about $9 billion direct economic impact and a $23.3 billion impact when including indirect induced impacts. There are over 70,000 jobs across the industry, which grows to 167,000 jobs when including secondary impacts.


Irrigation Today sought to further understand the study and its findings in a Q&A with the study’s principal researcher, George Oamek, PhD, of Headwaters Corporation located in Kearney, Nebraska.


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