Tennessee's Equine Industry
Institute of Agriculture Department of Agricultural Economics April 2010 Tennessee’s Equine Industry: Overview and Estimated Economic Impacts by R. Jamey Menard, Kaelin W. Hanks, Burton C. English and Kim L. Jensen Institute of Agriculture Department of Agricultural Economics Agricultural Experiment Station The University of Tennessee Knoxville Jamey Menard is a Research Associate. Burton C. English and Kim Jensen are Professors of Agricultural Economics. Kaelin Hanks is an Associate at Entira, Inc. Please visit the Department’s web site at http://economics.ag.utk.edu/. Additional copies of this report may be obtained from: Department of Agricultural Economics The University of Tennessee 2621 Morgan Circle Knoxville, TN 37996‐4518 (865) 974‐7231 Staff Paper SP10‐01 Funding for this study was provided in part from USDA’s Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES), through Hatch Project TEN00382. Equine photos from Microsoft Office Online Clip Art. ii Executive Summary According to the 2007 Census of Agriculture, Tennessee ranks sixth in the United States for the number of horses and ponies (142,003) and second for the number of mules, burros, and donkeys (18,350) on farms. Within Tennessee, Bedford County has the largest number of horses and ponies at 5,611; Wilson County has the largest number of mules, burros, and donkeys at 619. For 2007, total sales for Tennessee’s equine industry were $31.2 million, or 1.2 percent of total sales from all agriculture commodities for the state ($2.6 billion). Compared to the United States, Tennessee is ranked 11th in terms of market value of its equine industry.
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