While we know this isn t correct, the model s mechanics don t allow us to change it. In total, the spin-off industries employ over 16,000 people or 1.6 times the number employed directly. Adding the two together, we estimate that the poultry industry supports a total of 26,344 jobs in Minnesota. Two questions are common about the employment estimates. This is the case for poultry production and processing, the supplier industries, and the employee consumer industries.
Option b is correct.
Without the poultry industry, the supplier industries would employ ten thousand fewer people assuming that nothing else came in to fill the gap. Agricultural services employ the greatest number, with 1,962 jobs. One of the reasons that agricultural services show the largest impacts is that in the model we use, expenditures for chicks or poults are included here. In addition, as discussed above, the spin-offs are not entirely due to sales directly to the poultry industry. Rather, they include the sales to any of the other industries that sell directly to the poultry industry.