• Minnesota consistently ranks as a top location for exporting companies. Business and government offer a broad range of services to support these activities, from export counseling and shipping, to international legal, accounting and communications expertise.
  
  
• Minnesota’s 25 largest multinational companies derive 32 percent of their total revenues of $21.6 billion from outside the U.S.
  
  
• Minnesota’s manufactured exports, valued at $ 9.1 billion, have grown 55 percent since 1990.
  
  
• Minnesota ranks among the top 10 states in the export of many agricultural commodities.
  
• Minnesota’s 87,000 farms and 30 million acres of farmland generate more than $8 billion in cash receipts.
  
• Minnesota is the nation’s largest sugar beet producer and ranks in the top five in the production of corn, soybeans, dairy products and hogs.
  
• The state is the nation’s second largest turkey producer.

Pillsbury, General Mills, International Multifoods and Hormel are Minnesota-grown companies that have developed and marketed hundreds of new food products to a growing world market.