Marketing MN farm products to the world
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Written by Jonathan Eisenthal
How important are export markets to Minnesota farmers?
- $539.5 million in annual sales of grain and grain products
- $1.2 billion in total economic output generated
- $381.7 million of the Gross State Product (GSP)
- 3,988 Minnesota jobs supported by export sales
(source: Value of Trade Study,

Did you know that agricultural exports provide over 20 percent of U.S. farm income and support one million American jobs? Or that one in every three farm acres is planted for export?