Top 10 Wisconsin Agricultural Products
In partnership with: Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.
Take a look at the top 10 Wisconsin agricultural products based on cash receipts.*
1. Dairy Products
$7 billion
Wisconsin is America’s Dairyland, ranking No. 1 in the nation for cheese production and No. 2 for milk production. The state’s inventory of more than 1.26 million dairy cattle produced more than 32.3 million pounds of milk in 2024.
See more: Wisconsin Cheeses Are Making Quite a Stir in International Markets
2. Cattle and Calves
$3 billion
As of Jan. 1, 2025, Wisconsin’s cattle and calf inventory totaled 3.25 million, including 275,000 beef cows.
3. Corn
$1.7 billion
In 2024, Wisconsin farmers harvested 2.96 million acres of corn for grain and 730,000 acres of corn for silage, yielding more than 515 million bushels for grain and 14.6 million tons for silage.
4. Soybeans
$1.1 billion
Wisconsin’s 2024 soybean production totaled more than 101 million bushels from a harvest spanning more than 2 million acres.
5. Chicken Eggs
$450.2 million
In 2024, Wisconsin produced more than 2.4 billion eggs from an inventory of roughly 8 million layer hens.
6. Potatoes
$402.3 million
Wisconsin ranks No. 4 in the nation for potato production. Wisconsin farmers harvested 66,000 acres of potatoes in 2024, yielding more than 26 million hundredweight of the crop.
7. Cranberries
$218.2 million
Wisconsin ranks No. 1 in the nation for cranberry production, growing more than 60% of the nation’s total crop. In 2024, the state produced 5.49 million barrels of cranberries from a harvest encompassing 19,600 acres.
8. Broilers
$170 million
Wisconsin’s inventory of broilers (chickens raised for meat) totaled 58.6 million in 2024.
9. Hay
$134.7 million
In 2024, 1.3 million acres of hay were harvested, which produced 3.9 million tons.
10. Floriculture
$143.6 million
Floriculture is a major contributor to the Wisconsin economy. In 2023, the state was home to 474 floriculture operations that together generated more than $127 million in sales that year.
*What Are Cash Receipts?
Defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service, cash receipts refer to the total amount of crops or livestock sold in a calendar year.