Tennessee Dairy Farms Make Important Contributions to Local Communities

Abstract

Tennessee dairies can be an important economic engine for their local economies. In response to an industry request, we estimated the contribution of a dairy farm to a major dairy county in East Tennessee. Using an input-output model of the county economy (based on the IMPLAN economic model building system), data provided by the US Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, and data from a Washington State University Study (regarding cow and calf culling rates) in estimating the contribution.