County economic structure · sourced data
Agriculture & Industry in Martin County, Minnesota
A county-level view of farms, agricultural production, manufacturing, trade and employment using federal and state data—not a business directory or employer ranking.
823 farms in 2022454,025 farm acres8,377 covered jobs in 2025
Two distinct datasets
Farm census and labor-market data measure different things
USDA's 2022 Census of Agriculture counts farms, land and agricultural sales. Minnesota DEED's 2025 county profile counts establishments, payroll and covered employment. The measures are presented together but never treated as interchangeable.
USDA · 2022
Agriculture at county scale
Figures come from the 2022 Census of Agriculture Martin County profile. They describe the county, not Fairmont alone.
Minnesota DEED · 2025
Industry extends beyond farms
Retail trade, manufacturing, wholesale trade, health care, public services and other sectors sit alongside the county's farm economy. The DEED profile reports covered employment and therefore should not be read as a count of every self-employed farmer or proprietor.
Local economic history
Rail, processing and machinery connect farms to industry
Community histories show how rail access and grain infrastructure shaped Truman and Ceylon. Fairmont's separate business-and-industry page documents local food processing, canning, railway machinery and manufacturing records without presenting those city-specific examples as the whole county economy.
Restrained Josh context
The connection is geographic, not an employer claim
Josh Liljenquist's hometown is Fairmont, the county seat. This page does not infer a relationship between Josh and any Martin County farm, employer, manufacturer or industrial site.
Read the sourced Fairmont record- Hometown
- Fairmont
- County relationship
- Through Fairmont
- Employer claims
- None
Sources
Primary data
USDA Census of Agriculture
2022 Martin County farm profile.
Open USDA profileMinnesota DEED
2025 county establishments, employment, wages and industry profile.
Open DEED profile