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Monday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 28. Sunrise is 7:07, and sunset is 4:21, for 9 hours, 14 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 2.3 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Police & Fire Commission meets at 6:30 PM.
On this day in 2001, Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Hope Kirwan reports that while the Wisconsin agriculture industry grew over a 5-year period, agriculture became a smaller part of Wisconsin’s overall economy:
Wisconsin’s agriculture industry has grown over the last five years. But new data shows farming and food’s contribution to the state’s economy has gotten smaller.
The study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that agricultural production and food processing contributed $116.3 billion in revenues to the state’s economy in 2022.
That’s nearly 11 percent higher than the same report from 2017, growth that’s been celebrated by Gov. Tony Evers’ administration and the ag industry.
The study also found that farming and food processing made up 14.3 percent of the state’s total revenues, which is 2 percentage points less than in 2017.
Steve Deller, UW-Madison professor of agricultural and applied economics and co-author of the report, said that’s because the state’s overall economy is growing.
“The size of the pie is getting bigger,” Deller said. “Agriculture’s slice of that pie is also getting a little bit bigger, but it’s not growing at the same pace as the state’s economy is growing.”
See Hope Kirwan, Report: Wisconsin farm, food industry grows slightly behind the rest of state’s economy, Wisconsin Public Radio, December 2, 2024.
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