Status of Wisconsin Agriculture 2010 - Agricultural & Applied ...

Status of Wisconsin Agriculture, 2010
An annual report by the Department of Agricultural and
Applied Economics, UW-Madison and Cooperative Extension,
UW-Extension
Table of Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv
I. Status of the Wisconsin Farm Economy . . . . . . 1
II. Current Outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
• The General Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
• Farm Production Inputs and Services . . . . . . 14
• Dairy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
• Livestock and Poultry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
• Corn and Soybeans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
• Fruits and Vegetables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
III. Framing the Financial Crisis
for Wisconsin Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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