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Corn Belt Farm and Farm-Related Employment, 2002

This product includes data for 1981-2002 and revises estimates for 1998-2001.

Note: These data will no longer be updated or maintained because some of the necessary underlying data are no longer available to ERS.

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Corn Belt farm and farm-related employment, 2002
Farm industries
[What is included?]
Total* Metro Nonmetro
Emp. Pct. of total Emp. Pct. of total Emp. Pct. of total
Farming:

Farm production
493,119 2.14 177,659 0.96 315,460 7.15
....Farm proprietors 424,272 1.84 149,846 0.81 274,426 6.22
....Farm wage and salary workers 68,847 0.30 27,813 0.15 41,034 0.93
Closely related:

Agricultural services
74,003 0.32 52,987 0.28 21,016 0.48
Agricultural input industries-- 77,945 0.34 46,907 0.25 31,025 0.70
....Agricultural chemicals 7,393 0.03 4,632 0.02 2,761 0.06
....Farm machinery and equipment 18,590 0.08 11,042 0.06 7,548 0.17
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 40,680 0.18 20,259 0.11 20,408 0.46
....Commodity contract brokers 11,282 0.05 10,974 0.06 308 0.01
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 352,035 1.53 223,790 1.20 128,245 2.91
....Meat products 76,339 0.33 38,255 0.21 38,084 0.86
....Dairy products 22,668 0.10 14,844 0.08 7,824 0.18
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 27,353 0.12 17,614 0.09 9,739 0.22
....Grain mill products 29,341 0.13 17,983 0.10 11,358 0.26
....Bakery products 40,091 0.17 32,527 0.17 7,564 0.17
....Sugar and confectionery products 17,036 0.07 14,658 0.08 2,378 0.05
....Fats and oils products 6,994 0.03 5,189 0.03 1,805 0.04
....Beverages 19,944 0.09 17,515 0.09 2,429 0.06
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 19,344 0.08 14,422 0.08 4,922 0.11
....Tobacco products 445 0.00 409 0.00 36 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 22,116 0.10 13,832 0.07 8,284 0.19
....Leather products and footwear 5,829 0.03 4,272 0.02 1,557 0.04
....Packaging 31,782 0.14 18,159 0.10 13,623 0.31
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 26,547 0.12 9,196 0.05 17,351 0.39
....Warehousing 6,206 0.03 4,915 0.03 1,291 0.03
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade
2,299,913 10.00 1,867,399 10.04 432,514 9.81
Indirect agribusiness 82,620 0.36 63,410 0.34 19,210 0.44
Total farm & farm-related
employment
3,379,635 14.69 2,432,152 13.08 947,470 21.49
All other employment 19,627,100 85.31 16,165,443 86.92 3,461,670 78.51
Total employment 23,006,735 100.00 18,597,595 100.00 4,409,140 100.00

*Metro and nonmetro detail may not add to total because of some employment not
classified by location. Metro and nonmetro estimates are based on the June 2003 metropolitan area definitions.

Data are based on the 1997 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).

Source: Most industry estimates were developed from an enhanced file of the County Business Patterns, U.S. Bureau of the Census. Farm proprietors and farm wage and salary workers are from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce.

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Updated date: March 1, 2005