Table 1.

Food-related industries included in the analysis and their annual average employment, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2008–2010.

Industries included in the analysis, grouped by farm-to-table stage	NAICSa code	Average employment (thousands)
All non-food private industry		90,147.2
Food production
Crop production	111	416.5
Animal production	112	161.4
Fishing, hunting, and trapping	114	8.8
Support activities for agriculture and forestry	115	332.6
Food processing
Food manufacturing	311	1,467.3
Beverage and tobacco product manufacturing	312	193.6
Pesticide, fertilizer, and other agricultural chemical manufacturing	3253	36.5
Agricultural implement manufacturing	33311	75.4
Food storage
Refrigerated warehousing and storage	49312	48.7
Farm product warehousing and storage	49313	9.0
Food retail
Grocery and related product merchant wholesalers	4244	725.6
Farm product raw material merchant wholesalers	4245	74.0
Beer, wine, and distilled alcoholic beverage merchant wholesalers	4248	162.7
Food and beverage stores	445	2,876.4
Food service
Food services and drinking places	722	9,586.2

^aNorth American Industry Classification System.