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Wisconsin Ag Facts

• Wisconsin agriculture generates more than $51.5 billion in economic activity. This includes the direct effect of agricultural production and processing that adds the value to the farm products. It also includes agriculture's ripple effect on the economy.
• Wisconsin agriculture provides almost 420,000 jobs, which is 12% of the state's workforce.
• The direct effect of agriculture is $28.6 billion and includes the sale of all farm products and value-added products.
• Business to business purchases create another $17.6 billion in economic activity.
• Spending by people who work in agriculture related businesses generates $5.3 billion in economic activity.
• Over 99% of Wisconsin's farms are owned by family farmers, keeping control of land in the hands of people who farm it.
• Individuals or families – 86%
• Family partnerships – 10%
• Family-owned corporations – 3%
• Non-family corporations – 1%
• Wisconsin Farmers currently have enrolled more than 635,000 acres in the conservation Reserve Program to protect the environment and provide habitat for wildlife.
• Farmers and ranchers provide food and habitat to 75% of the nation's wildlife.
• American's spend on the average of $2400.00 on their food bill every year.

DID YOU KNOW?

• Wisconsin is a leader in producing Ginseng in the U.S.
• Every year 12,000 planes fly into the EAA in Oshkosh, making it the busiest airport in the World.
• Noah's Ark in Wisconsin Dells is the world's largest water-park with 65 acres of splish-splash fun.
• Door County has more than 250 miles of shoreline, which is more than any other county in the United States.
• Every new dollar of sales in agricultural products generates an additional 80 cents of economic activity in other parts of the state's economy.