Ag. Value and Economic Impact - Ag. Education Update
Kevin ChampeauPaul Larson
Agricultural Education is a part of Career and Technical EducationFreedom High School Career Technical
EducationAgriculture – Mr. Champeau & Mr. LarsonBusiness Education – Mrs. Helmila & Mr.
LaurentFamily & Cons. Sci. – Mrs. VanderBloomenTech. Ed. – Mr. Abitz, Mr. Rupiper, Mr. Stutz
Graduation RateAccording to 2010 CTEERS (Career and
Technical Education Enrollment Reporting System) Data from DPI
Freedom High School Graduation rate was 89.1 %
Students who took at least one CTE Class – Rate increased to 89.7%
Students who were concentrators – (3 or more CTE Classes) Rate increased to 90.3%
Future and AgricultureModern Agriculture
Freedom Agricultural Education’s GoalsProvide current information on the
agricultural industry and its 7 soon 8 career cluster areas
Enhance academic “core standards” within the curriculum of agriculture-6 Elective Science Credits
Provide top flight technology access to students
Engage students in “hands on” learning – Rigorous, Relevant
Engage students in community activities with FFA
Enhance student learning with SAE projects
Economic Impact StudyUW – Extension Study by Dave Williams and
Steven Deller
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33 Food Processing Sectors Flour milling and malt manufacturing
Wet corn milling Soybean & other oilseed processing Fats & oils refining and blending Breakfast cereal mfg Sugar cane mills and refining Beet sugar mfg Chocolate & confectionary mfg (cacao) Confectionary mfg - from purch. choc Non-chocolate confectionary mfg. Frozen food mfg Fruit and vegetable canning, pickling, and drying Fluid milk and butter mfg Cheese mfgDry, condensed & evaporated dairy mfg
• Ice cream & frozen desert mfg.•Animal (exp poultry) slaughter, rendering and processing•Poultry processing•Seafood product preparation and packaging•Bread and bakery product mfg.•Cookie, cracker, and pasta mfg.•Tortilla mfg•Snack food mfg•Coffee and tea mfg•Flavoring syrup & concentrate mfg.•Seasoning and dressing mfg•All other food mfg•Soft drink and ice mfg•Breweries•Wineries•Distilleries
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19 On-Farm Sectors Oilseed farming Grain farming Vegetable and melon farming Fruit farming Tree nut farming Greenhouse, nursery and floriculture production Tobacco farming Cotton farming Sugarcane and sugar beet farming All other crop farming Cattle ranching and farming
Dairy cattle and milk production
Poultry and egg productionAnimal production, except
cattle and poultry and eggsForestry, forest products,
and timber tract productionCommercial loggingCommercial fishingCommercial hunting and
trappingSupport activities for
agriculture and forestry
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Second study: “The Contribution of Agriculture to the Wisconsin Economy” 2009 study, 2007 data• $59.16 B in business sales (12.5% of total)
Every dollar of sales of agricultural sales yields an additional $.52 of industrial sales elsewhere in Wisconsin’s economy
• 353,991 jobs (10% of total) Every job in agriculture supports an
additional .89 jobs elsewhere in the Wisconsin economy
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“The Contribution of Agriculture to the Wisconsin Economy” (continued):
• $20.2 B total income (9.0% of total) Every dollar of income in agriculture generates an additional $1.24 dollars of income elsewhere in the Wisconsin economy
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County Ag Economic Impacts - Broad Conclusions
1. In some, mostly larger, more urban counties, impacts (jobs, business sales and income) are large but as a percentage of the entire county economy, not as large as many more rural counties
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County Ag Economic Impacts - Broad Conclusions
2. In many, more rural counties economic impacts may or not be large, but as a percentage of the local county economy they are large
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3. Food Processing is very important!
Dairy (cheese, fluid milk, butter, yogurt, dry whey, cheese packaging, etc.)
Meat (slaughtering and processing)Bakeries BreweriesVegetables (beans, corn, peas, etc.) Fruit (cranberry, cherry, apple, etc.)
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Revised countyagriculture economic impact brochures have been developed. We have printed you
each aof Outagamie County’sInformation.
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Summary:
Stability in farm & food processing employment
Some subsectors are strengths for Wisconsin Are there subsectors we could be supporting
more to improve linkages between production and processing?
Agriculture is very important in most WI Counties Rural and urban Food processing is really important!
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QuestionsURL for study paper and county ag impact brochures:
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/ag/wisag/