FARM AND FARM-RELATED EMPLOYMENT
Nebraska - 1981 to 2002
												2002
Farm industries	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	Total	Metro	Non-Metro
Farming
Farm production	70,177	69,407	69,594	66,728	66,557	68,528	67,283	67,864	68,346	65,554	64,897	63,138	7,490	55,648
Farm proprietors	56,110	56,169	55,764	55,121	54,975	54,230	53,393	54,245	53,937	53,102	51,717	50,754	6,443	44,311
Farm wage & salary	14,067	13,238	13,830	11,607	11,582	14,298	13,890	13,619	14,409	12,452	13,180	12,384	1,047	11,337
Closely Related
Ag services	3,672	4,142	4,241	4,614	5,354	5,803	5,107	3,776	4,262	4,123	4,916	5,193	1,493	3,700
Ag input industries	15,037	15,080	15,977	17,006	16,992	18,720	18,875	16,110	15,098	14,886	14,173	13,222	4,257	8,965
Ag chemicals	513	520	526	493	448	445	443	415	456	282	274	241	66	175
Farm machinery & equip	5,558	4,993	5,245	5,928	5,861	6,027	6,392	8,020	7,144	7,342	7,401	6,279	2,570	3,709
Farm supply & machinery	8,906	9,494	10,145	10,484	10,586	12,136	11,886	7,499	7,314	7,034	6,182	6,274	1,316	4,958
Commodity contract	60	73	61	101	97	112	154	176	184	228	316	428	305	123
Ag processing & marketing	39,399	39,051	39,852	41,343	42,252	44,529	43,750	45,088	43,872	43,056	45,035	42,373	17,216	25,157
Meat products	18,994	17,575	18,942	20,319	21,371	24,049	24,184	24,450	24,218	23,842	26,596	25,501	10,024	15,477
Dairy products	1,130	1,071	1,271	939	893	760	960	1,008	1,021	983	1,033	1,068	426	642
Canned frozen fr&veg	1,818	1,905	1,811	2,346	2,253	2,055	2,002	1,881	1,784	1,835	1,368	1,014	570	444
Grain mill products	3,385	3,441	2,966	3,315	3,363	3,402	3,314	3,444	3,382	3,371	3,407	3,320	1,440	1,880
Bakery products	1,659	1,648	1,661	2,247	1,626	1,652	1,634	1,621	1,610	1,646	1,696	2,089	1,517	572
Sugar & confectioner	434	342	396	433	503	421	445	358	352	450	468	336	92	244
Fats & oils products	492	517	662	532	582	576	715	174	173	258	297	268	177	91
Beverages	497	528	601	355	421	432	397	488	419	400	490	516	306	210
Misc food prep prod.	839	932	677	654	886	1,015	1,060	1,619	1,475	1,428	1,884	1,555	1,263	292
Tobacco products	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	25	28	28	25	10	0	10
Apparel & textiles	1,500	1,570	1,598	1,587	1,506	1,256	1,312	1,423	1,255	822	908	440	196	244
Leather products	510	488	525	512	445	445	556	731	680	600	325	207	172	35
Packaging	263	307	284	223	227	331	344	562	552	515	426	333	190	143
Farm raw material	7,295	8,000	7,712	7,214	7,420	7,466	6,306	6,715	5,428	6,246	5,425	5,255	584	4,671
Warehousing	583	727	746	667	756	669	518	589	495	532	687	461	259	202
Peripherally Related
Ag wholesale retail	98,334	101,632	103,333	103,000	105,441	105,807	103,391	125,030	123,310	129,640	116,223	113,781	66,597	47,184
Indirect agribusines	1,660	1,803	1,961	2,055	2,022	2,033	2,083	3,328	3,186	3,274	2,472	1,876	1,323	553
Total Farm & Farm-Related	228,279	231,115	234,958	234,746	238,618	245,420	240,489	261,196	258,074	260,533	247,716	239,583	98,376	141,207
All Other	755,139	745,033	780,373	806,567	849,229	869,616	864,323	863,736	883,026	902,186	912,547	941,248	597,214	344,034
Total All Employment	983,418	976,148	1,015,331	1,041,313	1,087,847	1,115,036	1,104,812	1,124,932	1,141,100	1,162,719	1,160,263	1,181,011	659,590	521,421
Farm as % of Total	23.2%	23.7%	23.1%	22.5%	21.9%	22.0%	21.8%	23.2%	22.6%	22.4%	21.3%	20.3%	14.9%	27.1%
	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990
Farming
Farm production	86,669	83,725	88,348	84,159	81,427	75,776	77,713	76,802	73,962	72,057
Farm proprietors	64,827	62,663	65,552	63,660	62,465	60,612	59,824	58,276	57,679	57,409
Farm wage & salary	21,842	21,062	22,796	20,499	18,962	15,164	17,889	18,526	16,283	14,648
Closely Related
Ag services	2,562	2,915	3,129	2,881	2,818	2,908	2,873	3,051	3,205	3,434
Ag input industries	20,635	19,219	17,249	17,281	16,469	13,637	13,269	13,303	13,842	14,707
Ag chemicals	752	1,065	947	1,013	1,030	661	617	502	409	423
Farm machinery & equip	8,514	6,944	5,625	5,795	5,745	4,245	3,855	4,513	4,891	5,673
Farm supply & machinery	11,299	11,110	10,525	10,194	9,627	8,691	8,748	8,245	8,488	8,558
Commodity contract	70	100	152	279	67	40	49	43	54	53
Ag processing & marketing	39,020	38,159	35,042	34,430	33,892	33,926	32,557	35,144	35,152	34,630
Meat products	14,480	15,009	13,391	12,731	13,303	14,163	12,672	15,176	15,083	14,757
Dairy products	1,289	1,498	1,333	1,385	1,286	1,310	1,267	1,004	1,044	1,154
Canned frozen fr&veg	1,071	1,022	1,143	1,680	1,651	1,394	1,547	1,487	1,547	1,367
Grain mill products	4,222	3,720	3,510	3,408	3,244	3,206	3,061	3,258	3,177	3,239
Bakery products	1,789	1,815	1,593	1,656	1,646	1,437	1,300	1,288	1,461	1,220
Sugar & confectioner	503	905	341	407	315	464	443	431	425	400
Fats & oils products	646	818	636	661	633	697	587	472	462	454
Beverages	1,245	1,149	1,283	1,042	868	690	819	640	594	509
Misc food prep prod.	806	786	757	788	727	761	931	951	786	1,004
Tobacco products	0	0	0	2	2	2	1	0	0	0
Apparel & textiles	2,989	1,924	1,726	1,597	1,791	2,031	1,744	1,579	1,713	1,592
Leather products	191	205	178	139	189	230	251	346	435	576
Packaging	510	522	637	556	512	300	314	305	292	358
Farm raw material	8,642	8,396	8,129	7,942	7,283	6,781	6,946	7,581	7,502	7,421
Warehousing	637	390	385	436	442	460	674	626	631	579
Peripherally Related
Ag wholesale retail	78,379	79,638	78,361	78,902	79,461	80,799	85,302	92,146	92,986	95,410
Indirect agribusines	1,261	1,573	1,519	1,663	1,451	1,512	1,572	1,730	1,840	1,791
Total Farm & Farm-Related	228,526	225,229	223,648	219,316	215,518	208,558	213,286	222,176	220,987	222,029
All Other	621,205	617,008	615,925	640,824	652,529	659,794	672,670	695,964	718,913	747,062
Total All Employment	849,731	842,237	839,573	860,140	868,047	868,352	885,956	918,140	939,900	969,091
Farm as % of Total	26.9%	26.7%	26.6%	25.5%	24.8%	24.0%	24.1%	24.2%	23.5%	22.9%
Source: USDA, Economic Research Service, March 2005.
Last Updated:	June 17, 2005
by Nebraska Databook
email:	michael.lundeen@ded.ne.gov