The spaciousness, the trees and parks, the individual homes with lawns and gardens make life comparable to the finest type of suburban living - large enough to provide satisfying urban advantages, yet the small village atmosphere prevails. Everywhere in Sanpete there is elbow room. Agriculture has always figured prominently in the economic lifeblood of Sanpete County. The nearly 1,000 farms in the county comprise about two thirds of the total land area. Average farm size, including the privately owned range land, is about 655 acres, with about 10 percent of the farm acreage under irrigation.
Livestock is grazed on both private and public range land.
The irrigated acreage is devoted to raising feed for the livestock. Principal crops are alfalfa, sma11 grains and corn for silage. For many years,p Sanpete has ranked among the to 8 counties in the US based on total volume of turkey production. A typical year's output of Moroni Feed Company, an integrated farmers cooperative which has been largely responsible for the rise of the turkey industry here, is in excess of 35 million pounds of dressed turkey. Snow College, organized in 1888, is one of Utah's oldest institutions of higher 1earning.