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==Economy== [[File:C. C. Hampton homestead machine shed from NW 2.JPG|thumb|C. C. Hampton homestead machine shed]] About 60% of Banner County is given over to farming: chiefly [[winter wheat]] and rangeland,<ref name="SH">[http://www.starherald.com/articles/2010/08/28/news/tourism/doc4ae7892cd0f1d899645037.txt "Banner County".] [http://www.starherald.com/ ''Scottsbluff Star-Herald''.] November 18, 2009. Retrieved August 31, 2010.</ref> but also [[maize|corn]], beans, [[sugar beet]]s, [[potato]]es, [[sunflower]]s, [[Brassica napus|rapeseed]], and [[millet]].<ref name=HB/> In response to [[overdrafting|groundwater depletion]] and drought, the [[Natural Resources Conservation Service]] has developed a system of cash incentives for farmers in the Pumpkin Creek watershed who convert irrigated cropland to [[dryland farming]].<ref name=NR/> Oil was discovered in Banner County in 1919, but the deposits were too deep to be commercially viable at that time. Petroleum production in Banner County began in 1951, and peaked in 1960, when {{convert|7000000|oilbbl}} <ref name=HB/> was produced from 397 wells. By 2009, the number of wells had fallen to about 200;<ref name=SH/> but new discoveries in [[Weld County, Colorado]] prompted interest in exploring the Niobrara shale, which lies beneath western Nebraska, northeastern Colorado, and southeastern Wyoming. A 2010 sale of oil leases yielded record prices in Banner and Kimball counties.<ref>Jenkins, Nate. [http://journalstar.com/business/local/article_f012a5c6-6f4a-11df-b4d8-001cc4c002e0.html "Oil frenzy spills into Nebraska; schools get the money".] [http://journalstar.com/ ''Lincoln Journal-Star''.] June 3, 2010. Retrieved August 31, 2010.</ref>
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