Texas

Texas Economic Contribution and Impact Research

In 2022, Texas generated around $30.8 billion in agricultural cash receipts with the highest valued commodities being cattle and calves, dairy products, specifically milk, and broilers. That same year, the value of Texas’s agricultural production and processing industries represented 1.7 percent of total state GDP. Some of the dollars generated by these industries end up being re-spent within the local economy, bringing additional value to the state through “multiplier effects.” Economic impact and contribution studies measure these effects, which can be broken down into direct, indirect, and induced economic effects.

Websites, reports, fact sheets, and articles related to the economic impacts and contributions of Texas’ food, fiber, and forest industries can be found below.

Websites:

Information related to Texas’s food, fiber, and forest industries can be found by visiting the following website(s):

• Texas Cooperative Extension Service
• Texas Department of Agriculture
• Texas Forestry Impacts
• Texas Forest Sector Economic Impact County Summary Tool

Contribution and Impact Research Documents:

The following are current and historical studies, fact sheets, and articles related to Alabama’s food, fiber, and forest industries.  These can be viewed and/or downloaded by clicking the images or links below:

	2021- Fact Sheet- Meat Fuels America, 2016
	2021- Fact Sheet- Poultry Feeds America, 2020
	2020- Fact Sheet- Feeding the Economy, 2019
	2018 – Fact Sheet – The Animal Feed and Pet Food Manufacturing Industry is Crucial to American Agriculture, Economy, 2016
	2017 – Report – Economic Impact of the Texas Forest Sector, 2015
	2017 – Fact Sheet – AFPA State Industry Economic Impact
	2017 – Fact Sheet – Economic Impacts of the Forest Sector in Texas, 2015
	2016 – Report – Economic Analysis of Animal Agriculture 2005-2015
	2016 – Report – The Food and Fiber System and Production: Agriculture’s Contributions to the Texas Economy, 2014
	2016 – Report – A Framework for Estimating the Linked Economic Contributions of Cotton Production, Ginning, Oilseed Milling, and Warehousing, 2013
	2016 – Report – Texas Food and Fiber Methodology, 2013
	2016 – Fact Sheet- Economic Impact of the Forest Sector in Texas, 2014
	2015 – Fact Sheet- The Impact of Agribusiness: Texas High Plains
	2015 – Fact Sheet- Economic Impacts of the Forest Sector in Texas, 2013
	2015 – Fact Sheet – AFPA State Industry Economic Impact
	2013 – Report- The Impact of the Beef Industry in The Southern Ogallala Region, 2010
	2011 – Report – Potential Economic Impacts of the Managed Haying and Grazing Provision of the Conservation Reserve Program
	2009 – Report – The Food and Fiber System and Production: Agriculture’s Contributions to the Texas Economy, 2006

*At present, there is no universally agreed upon standard methodology for producing economic impact or economic contribution reports.  Please exercise caution when viewing and comparing reports as each may vary significantly in terms of source data and analysis and reporting methodology.