ABSTRACT
Tourism is important in the Arizona economy, because Arizona has many natural wonders that attract visitors from around the world. Arizona has a viable and dynamic economy, an economy that is slowly changing and evolving to fit the needs of the latter half of the twentieth century. Arizona farms are distinguished by their large size, mechanization, high capitalization, substantial use of seasonal labor, double-cropping, and professional management. Irrigation is one characteristic of farms in Arizona, and they are the greatest users of Arizona's most precious and critically limited resource, water. Livestock production is of great economic importance to Arizona, and it is usually about as significant as agriculture, though by the late 1970s it had fallen far behind agriculture in the value of its products. The mining industry, along with agriculture and cattle, prompted the early economic development of Arizona.
