Wisconsin continues to be the country’s largest producers of furs – a distinction that earns the state props from the agricultural industry but hisses and boos from animal rights groups. Workers in the state “harvested” a total of 886,100 pelts in 2009, a 3 percent drop from 2008, according to the Wisconsin Ag Connection news service. The state still commanded the, um, lion’s share of the nation’s fur market by producing about 30 percent of its “total pelt output.”
Link: Milwaukee Magazine