All three projects were completed but each suffered a tremendous reduction of patent acreage because of limited water availability. The total of acres segregated for the three projects numbered more than 400,000, yet the patented acres totaled just over 200,000.

Carey Act reclamation projects have put substantial tracts of land under cultivation that became family farms and were utilized to grow Idaho® potatoes. Without this one piece of legislation, many of today's potato fields would be range for cattle and sheep.