Food Processing & Ag-Tech


Due to our fertile soil, senior water rights to the Colorado River and expansive land mass, the Greater Yuma region is able to grow 180+ different crops to feed America. Within a 100-mile radius food processors can access poultry farms with 2,000,000+ chickens and feed lots with 100,000+ head of cattle for protein inputs. The region also has commercial dairy farms producing 750,000/gallons of fluid milk per month along with 40,000 acres of wheat grown annually. Our food production workforce of 15,000 individuals generates 90% of the nation’s winter leafy vegetables and other crops for worldwide consumption.

90 %

LEAFY GREENS CONSUMED IN THE U.S. AND CANADA

180

VARIETY OF CROPS PRODUCED

4.40

BILLION OF ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTION IN SALES

 

Agricultural day, drone and a fill

$17.22
Avg. wage for production workers

#1
Yuma County is the largest producer of lettuces and other veggies during the winter months in the U.S.

Fill with lettuce

Processing food Machine working on a fill

Fill and machine working on the fill

1,519,664 
Billion of Agricultural GDP in 2023