Looking at the backward linkages purchases of horse feed represent near 11.7 million dollars when the use of pastures is included. Expenditures in clothing and tacks amount to 5.9 million dollars, and expenditures in veterinarian services, vaccines and medicines represent 4.2 million dollars. The production of the Sonoma equestrian sector generates demands for goods and services produced by other sectors, which generates demands for goods and services, and so on. Multipliers measure these interactions. The multipliers break down the effects on economic activity into direct, indirect and induced components.
Direct effects are changes within the equestrian sector.
Indirect effects are changes in inter-industry purchases as they respond to the new demands of the directly affected industries. The impact of the equestrian sector has been established by using the above multipliers. When considering the direct, indirect and induced effects of the equestrian sector, its annual production value is 295 million dollars. The large importance of land is mostly attributed to the high price of land in the county. Each item of the capital stock has a working life of more than one year.