Rural Conditions and Trends: Rural Industry Issue, Vol. 8, No. 3

Douglas E. Bowers and Fred Gale, editors

Rural Conditions and Trends No. (RCAT-83) March 1998

About this magazine

This Rural Industries issue of Rural Conditions and Trends reports on manufacturing industries that rely on farm or forest products for a substantial portion of their material inputs (excluding labor, capital, and services). Department of Commerce data on interindustry transactions were used to identify a set of manufacturing industries that obtain at least 20 percent of their inputs from farm or forest products, either directly from the farm or forest/logging industries or indirectly through early-stage processors or wholesalers. This group of farm- and forest-based manufacturers are referred to as value-added manufacturers. Technically, all manufacturing industries are value-added manufacturers, because all add value to their material inputs.

In this report ...

Articles are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

• Frontmatter (masthead, contents), 16 kb

Overview

• Value-Added Manufacturing--An Important Link to the Larger U.S. Economy, 22 kb

Recent Trends in Value-Added Industries

• Agricultural- and Wood Products-Based Manufacturing Industries Growing at a Modest Pace, 39 kb
• Most Value-Added Manufacturing Increased Its Attachment to Rural Areas During 1989-94, 36 kb

Workers and Wages

• Value-Added Workers Earn Less, Have Less Education Than Other Rural Manufacturing Workers, 24 kb

Local Linkages

• Value-Added Manufacturing Has Strong Local Linkages, 23 kb

Capital Investment

• Investment Patterns Indicate Modest Expansion by Value-Added Industries, 41 kb
• Most Value-Added Firms Have Access to Needed Capital, 21 kb

Exports

• Trade Agreements May Open New Markets for Value-Added Exports, 27 kb
• Farm- and Forest-Related Value-Added Exports Boost the U.S. Economy, 15 kb
• Appendix 1-Data Sources, 11 kb
• Appendix 2-Definitions, 52 kb
• Appendix 3-Latest Trends in Nonfarm Jobs and Earnings, 21 kb
• Appendix 4-Two Methods of Measuring Farm-Linked Employment, 26 kb
• Appendix 5-Economic Activity Triggered by Agricultural Trade, 10 kb
• Download entire issue, 310 kb.

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Updated date: March 1998