Wisconsin Milk—Nature's Most Perfect Food
Wisconsin’s 19,000 dairy farmers produce over 23 billion pounds of milk, more than 14% of the entire U.S. milk supply.

To move all that milk at one time would require a fleet of 500,000 trucks, each carrying 46,000 pounds (or 96 thousand glasses) of milk. What a milky way traffic jam! 

Last year Wisconsin produced 21,250,000 gallons of ice cream. That's enough for 525 million ice cream cones! 

We produce enough mozzarella cheese to make over 1 billion pizzas!

Wisconsin is the second leading butter state producing 290 million pounds, which is 25% of the total U.S. production. That's enough for nearly 13 billion pieces of toast.

Wisconsin Is Famous For Fruit
From Wisconsin's cranberry marshes come three million barrels of cranberries, over 50% of the nation's crop. This places us first in production in the U.S. 

The Door County Peninsula grows 12 
million pounds of red tart cherries.

Each year Wisconsin harvests 77 million pounds of crisp, juicy apples. Pleasant 
valleys like Gays Mills grow enough apples to make 46 million apple pies.

Wisconsin farms produce more than 5 million pounds of strawberries, enough to fill over 8 million 8 oz. jars with trawberry jam.

Wisconsin Forestry-From Saw Logs To Santa Claus
Wisconsin's 15.7 million acres of forestland covers 44% of the land area in the state. Wisconsin forests provide us not only lumber, 
plywood, toothpicks, postage stamps, apples, and walnuts, but also a fine quality of life. 

The forest products industry provides over 98,000 jobs which is 17% of the manufacturing workforce. Another 200,000 workers are employed in jobs involved in the secondary manufacturing of wood products. 

Wisconsin Christmas tree growers produce over 3 million trees each year, that are sold across the nation and even in Japan.
 

Wisconsin Fiber—Wisconsin Farmers Keeping You Warm 
Wisconsin is the number one mink state, producing 730,000 pelts, 26% of the U.S. total. Sheep producers sell 475,000 pounds of wool.

Wisconsin Meat Producers—Raising Protein for the U.S. 
Wisconsin is first in the nation for special fed veal calves, producing 200,000 each year. We rank 9th among the states in total cattle and calves with 3.4 million head (includes beef and dairy cattle). 

Wisconsin's 3,330 hog farmers market 570,000 million hogs, ranking us 17th in the U.S.

Chicken farms produce one billion eggs, enough for every person in Wisconsin to eat one every other day for a year. We rank 2nd in duckling production with 45% of the total or almost 6 million annually. Over 33 million broilers and about 6 million turkeys are produced each year. 

Wisconsin's 80 fish farmers produce 600,000 pounds of trout–most for restaurants.

Wisconsin farmers market 83,000 sheep and lambs. 

Wisconsin Vegetables—"Greengrocers For America" 
Wisconsin produces 30% of the nation's snap beans for processing, ranking us first in the nation. We rank first in producing 45% of the beets and 45% of the kraut. We are the #3 producer of sweet corn for processing, and second in 
producing 17% of the peas grown in the U.S. We are third in the production of carrots.

We also plant 85,000 acres of potatoes. On each acre of land, a farmer can raise enough potatoes for your family to have one meal of french fries every day for over 40 years.

To make your eyes water, we have 2300 acres of onions. We have 800 acres of horseradish, which is 25% of all the horseradish grown in the U.S. 

Last year, Wisconsin grew close to one million pounds of ginseng. That's 98% of the nation's supply. 

Wisconsin Crops & More!
Wisconsin honey producers harvested eight million pounds of honey. We rank 5th in U.S. maple syrup production with 75 thousand gallons. For flavor we grow 12 thousand acres of spearmint and peppermint. 

To feed our cattle, we grow more corn silage for forage than any other state. Farmers harvest 400 million bushels of corn as grain, which is more than 19 pounds of corn per day for every Wisconsin resident. Snacks, dog food, candy, cosmetics, bakery, cereal, oil, fuel, and pharmaceuticals are all products derived from corn. 

There are nearly 100,000 horses in Wisconsin, with 25% being used for sporting events, breeding, racing, and work. Each year $145 million is spent on horse feed, health care, tack, and services.