Agriculture :
Farm employment, 2006

Statewide, farm employment makes up just 2.7% of the workforce. The percentage of the workforce engaged in farming is highest in counties where agriculture plays the largest role in the economy. The data here includes only those working on farms, not in food processing or transportation. Since farm work tends to be low-paying, counties that have the largest proportion of their workforce employed on farms also tend to have the lowest per-capita earned income.

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