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

Farm production
12,397 3.66 1,381 1.35 11,016 4.64
....Farm proprietors 8,870 2.62 870 0.85 8,000 3.37
....Farm Wage & Salary Workers 3,527 1.04 511 0.50 3,016 1.27
Closely related:

Agricultural services
1,611 0.48 348 0.34 1,263 0.53
Agricultural inputs industries-- 763 0.22 88 0.09 675 0.28
....Agricultural chemicals 204 0.06 0 0.00 204 0.09
....Farm machinery and equipment 47 0.01 2 0.00 45 0.02
....Farm supply & mach. wholesale trade 509 0.15 86 0.08 423 0.18
....Commodity contract brokers 3 0.00 0 0.00 3 0.00
Agricultural processing and marketing-- 1,191 0.35 49 0.05 1,142 0.48
....Meat products 134 0.04 22 0.02 112 0.05
....Dairy products 7 0.00 0 0.00 7 0.00
....Can., frozen, and pres. fruit and veg. 17 0.01 0 0.00 17 0.01
....Grain mill products 23 0.01 0 0.00 23 0.01
....Bakery products 1 0.00 1 0.00 0 0.00
....Sugar and confectionery products 271 0.08 8 0.01 263 0.11
....Fats and oils products 0 0.00 0 0.00 0 0.00
....Beverages 254 0.07 0 0.00 254 0.11
....Misc. food prep. & kindred products 32 0.01 0 0.00 32 0.01
....Tobacco products 2 0.00 0 0.00 2 0.00
....Apparel and textiles 82 0.02 6 0.01 76 0.03
....Leather products and footwear 34 0.01 4 0.00 30 0.01
....Packaging 114 0.03 2 0.00 112 0.05
....Farm-related raw mat. whlsle trade 189 0.06 4 0.00 185 0.08
....Warehousing 31 0.01 2 0.00 29 0.01
Peripherally related:

Agricultural wholesale & retail trade
31,807 9.38 9,372 9.19 22,435 9.46
Indirect agribusiness 506 0.15 3 0.00 503 0.21
Total farm & farm-related employment 48,275 14.24 11,241 11.03 37,034 15.61
All other employment 290,846 85.76 90,705 88.97 200,141 84.39
Total employment 339,121 100.00 101,946 100.00 237,175 100.00

*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