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Minnesota 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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Minnesota farm and farm-related employment, 2002
Farm industries
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Total* Metro Nonmetro
Emp. Pct. of total Emp. Pct. of total Emp. Pct. of total
Farming:

Farm production
97,338 2.90 25,830 1.03 71,508 8.40
....Farm proprietors 80,848 2.41 20,738 0.83 60,110 7.06
....Farm wage and salary workers 16,490 0.49 5,092 0.20 11,398 1.34
Closely related:

Agricultural services
10,718 0.32 6,635 0.26 4,083 0.48
Agricultural input industries-- 12,609 0.38 4,470 0.18 8,139 0.96
....Agricultural chemicals 119 0.00 57 0.00 62 0.01
....Farm machinery and equipment 3,344 0.10 494 0.02 2,850 0.33
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 8,850 0.26 3,718 0.15 5,132 0.60
....Commodity contract brokers 296 0.01 201 0.01 95 0.01
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 55,867 1.66 24,402 0.97 31,465 3.70
....Meat products 14,272 0.43 2,664 0.11 11,608 1.36
....Dairy products 6,593 0.20 3,346 0.13 3,247 0.38
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 4,993 0.15 2,727 0.11 2,266 0.27
....Grain mill products 4,691 0.14 2,155 0.09 2,536 0.30
....Bakery products 4,631 0.14 3,812 0.15 819 0.10
....Sugar and confectionery products 2,633 0.08 2,075 0.08 558 0.07
....Fats and oils products 887 0.03 85 0.00 802 0.09
....Beverages 1,782 0.05 1,207 0.05 575 0.07
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 3,723 0.11 1,502 0.06 2,221 0.26
....Tobacco products 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 2,104 0.06 1,491 0.06 613 0.07
....Leather products and footwear 1,792 0.05 253 0.01 1,539 0.18
....Packaging 2,452 0.07 1,370 0.05 1,082 0.13
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 4,791 0.14 1,451 0.06 3,340 0.39
....Warehousing 523 0.02 264 0.01 259 0.03
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade
328,692 9.79 242,762 9.68 85,930 10.09
Indirect agribusiness 11,048 0.33 8,153 0.33 2,895 0.34
Total farm & farm-related
employment
516,272 15.37 312,252 12.46 204,020 23.96
All other employment 2,841,780 84.63 2,194,459 87.54 647,321 76.04
Total employment 3,358,052 100.00 2,506,711 100.00 851,341 100.00

*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