Livestock
With about 1.26 million head on January 1, 2024, this was Wyoming's largest livestock inventory category.
What are cattle and calves?
Wyoming Agriculture statistics list this forage crop as the state's largest crop.
What is hay?
This southwest Wyoming basin is globally significant because it contains the world's largest deposit of trona.
What is the Green River Basin?
This fossil fuel is commonly used to heat homes and is typically transported by pipeline rather than by tanker truck.
What is natural gas?
Wyoming is home to roughly 320,000 of these animals, the largest number in N. America.
What are Pronghorn?
Nearly 48% of Wyoming is this kind of land ownership, one reason hiking and biking access is so extensive across the state.
What is Federal Public Land?
What are hogs and sheep?
In Wyoming's crop ratings, this crop came in ahead of sugar beets but behind hay.
What is corn?
This processed product made from Wyoming trona is the second ingredient by weight in glass after silica, and helps lower the melting point of silica sand.
What is soda ash?
This process separates crude oil into usable products like gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel.
What is refining?
The public-access program expanded by 2000 to include more than 657,500 acres for hunting, plus fishing access on lakes and streams.
What is Access Yes?
This Wyoming state park is known for nearly 50 miles of single-track trails for mountain biking.
What is Glendo State Park?
This Wyoming livestock sector has historically been especially important in the state's colder, drier regions, and helped make Wyoming a national leader in one animal fiber commodity.
What is the sheep industry?
Wyoming produced about 6.0 million bushels of this crop in the state ag facts summary, and is important for feed, food, and malting.
What is barely?
Wyoming remains the nation's most prolific producer of this fuel, accounting for almost 40% of US production in the WSGS summary.
What is coal?
Wyoming produced about 96.8 million barrels of this resource in 2023 and 106.6 million barrels in 2024.
What is crude oil?
Wyoming Game and Fish sends about 250,000 of these each year to estimate harvest and participation.
What are hunter harvest surveys?
This trail system connecting Granite and Crystal Reservoirs is Wyoming's only IMBA Epic designation.
What is the Curt Gowdy Trail System?
This Wyoming livestock industry is typically associated with ranch-based breeding operations that produce young animals for later finishing, often outside the state.
What is the cattle industry?
Sugar beets, dry edible beans, corn, and barley are all especially associated with these more fertile Wyoming farming areas.
What are river bottoms?
These 2 major seams are the best-known mineable coals in Wyoming's Powder River Basin coal field.
What are the Anderson and Canyon coals?
Wyoming's 2024 production of this fuel was about 1.2 trillion cubic feet, even as the state's long-term production trend has generally declined since the coalbed methane boom.
What is natural gas?
Wyoming's Pronghorn herd, one of the state's largest at about 35,000 animals, helped reveal one of the longest intact big-game migration corridors in N. America.
What is the Sublette Pronghorn herd?
More than 1.8 million gallons of mineral water flow over the terrace at this Wyoming state park every 24 hours, which also includes more than 6 miles of trails.
What is Hot Springs State Park?
Because of Wyoming's climate, forage patterns, and geography, this broad livestock production approach has historically fit the state better than confinement-based systems.
What is extensive grazing?
In Wyoming, irrigation is especially important to crop production because this natural limiting factor affects much of the state.
What is low precipitation?
Besides glass and detergents, Wyoming trona also helps produce compounds such as sodium phosphate, caustic soda, and this gold-processing chemical.
What is sodium cyanide?
This term describes natural gas produced along with oil, rather than from a gas-only field.
What is associated gas?
In 2025, 210 anglers completed this Wyoming challenge by catching all 4 native cutthroat trout subspecies.
What is the Wyoming Cutt-Slam?
What are hiking and biking?