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Southern 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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Southern 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
388,083 2.71 141,908 1.16 246,175 11.66
....Farm proprietors 324,747 2.27 121,206 0.99 203,541 9.64
....Farm wage and salary workers 63,336 0.44 20,702 0.17 42,634 2.02
Closely related:

Agricultural services
63,340 0.44 47,229 0.39 16,111 0.76
Agricultural input industries-- 21,062 0.15 11,940 0.10 9,122 0.43
....Agricultural chemicals 3,598 0.03 2,698 0.02 900 0.04
....Farm machinery and equipment 2,159 0.02 637 0.01 1,522 0.07
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 13,918 0.10 7,301 0.06 6,617 0.31
....Commodity contract brokers 1,387 0.01 1,304 0.01 83 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 167,382 1.17 113,406 0.93 53,976 2.56
....Meat products 45,044 0.31 18,965 0.16 26,079 1.24
....Dairy products 6,935 0.05 6,318 0.05 617 0.03
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 8,878 0.06 6,817 0.06 2,061 0.10
....Grain mill products 8,407 0.06 3,661 0.03 4,746 0.22
....Bakery products 15,834 0.11 14,084 0.12 1,750 0.08
....Sugar and confectionery products 3,997 0.03 2,890 0.02 1,107 0.05
....Fats and oils products 1,083 0.01 850 0.01 233 0.01
....Beverages 12,201 0.09 11,072 0.09 1,129 0.05
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 10,350 0.07 9,243 0.08 1,107 0.05
....Tobacco products 202 0.00 123 0.00 79 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 27,268 0.19 21,573 0.18 5,695 0.27
....Leather products and footwear 5,507 0.04 4,624 0.04 883 0.04
....Packaging 8,284 0.06 6,964 0.06 1,320 0.06
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 9,986 0.07 3,597 0.03 6,389 0.30
....Warehousing 3,406 0.02 2,625 0.02 781 0.04
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade
1,449,659 10.11 1,241,742 10.16 207,751 9.84
Indirect agribusiness 28,927 0.20 22,947 0.19 5,980 0.28
Total farm & farm-related
employment
2,118,453 14.78 1,579,172 12.92 539,115 25.54
All other employment 12,218,306 85.22 10,646,336 87.08 1,572,136 74.46
Total employment 14,336,759 100.00 12,225,508 100.00 2,111,251 100.00

*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