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Northern Plains 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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Northern Plains 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 		213,392 5.44 35,460 1.56 177,932 10.77
....Farm proprietors 178,817 4.56 31,182 1.37 147,635 8.93
....Farm wage and salary workers 34,575 0.88 4,278 0.19 30,297 1.83
Closely related:

Agricultural services 		15,951 0.41 6,154 0.27 9,797 0.59
Agricultural input industries-- 31,713 0.81 10,384 0.46 21,329 1.29
....Agricultural chemicals 676 0.02 241 0.01 435 0.03
....Farm machinery and equipment 13,625 0.35 5,900 0.26 7,725 0.47
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 16,484 0.42 3,585 0.16 12,899 0.78
....Commodity contract brokers 928 0.02 658 0.03 270 0.02
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 103,033 2.63 37,003 1.63 66,030 4.00
....Meat products 48,567 1.24 15,835 0.70 32,732 1.98
....Dairy products 2,756 0.07 1,169 0.05 1,587 0.10
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 3,909 0.10 1,360 0.06 2,549 0.15
....Grain mill products 8,417 0.21 3,845 0.17 4,572 0.28
....Bakery products 7,100 0.18 4,283 0.19 2,817 0.17
....Sugar and confectionery products 2,486 0.06 259 0.01 2,227 0.13
....Fats and oils products 899 0.02 498 0.02 401 0.02
....Beverages 1,465 0.04 877 0.04 588 0.04
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 4,134 0.11 2,737 0.12 1,397 0.08
....Tobacco products 10 0.00 0 0.00 10 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 1,903 0.05 962 0.04 941 0.06
....Leather products and footwear 493 0.01 293 0.01 200 0.01
....Packaging 1,626 0.04 1,220 0.05 406 0.02
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 17,571 0.45 2,717 0.12 14,854 0.90
....Warehousing 1,697 0.04 948 0.04 749 0.05
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade 		374,959 9.56 222,863 9.82 152,069 9.20
Indirect agribusiness 8,627 0.22 5,175 0.23 3,452 0.21
Total farm & farm-related
employment		 747,675 19.07 317,039 13.97 430,609 26.06
All other employment 3,173,655 80.93 1,951,929 86.03 1,221,753 73.94
Total employment 3,921,330 100.00 2,268,968 100.00 1,652,362 100.00

*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.

For more information, contact: Kathleen Kassel

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Updated date: March 1, 2005