Highlights

Did you know…food and fiber production and its related processing directly and indirectly generated a total economic impact of $65 billion for the state and created more than 351,000 jobs in 2008?

In two-thirds of Georgia’s counties, food and fiber production and directly related businesses represent the largest or second largest segment of all goods and services produced.

For more information about this snapshot, click here.

Information provided by Ag Snapshots, a publication of The University of Georgia’s College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences. Released January 2010.