Check the numbers and you’ll find agriculture still Ohio’s largest industry
Depends on how you define “largest industry”
If you compare manufacturing vs. agriculture, I am taking manufacturing. If you divide manufacturing into auto manufacturing, steel making, solar panel manufacturing, detergent making (Proctor and Gamble), jet engine manufacturing (general electric, cincinnati) etc., then ok, I’ll take agriculture as bigger.
from here
http://www.ohiopoweredbymanufacturing.com/oma/ManufacturingCounts.pdf
Manufacturing is the largest of the 20 sectors of Ohio’s economy
with 17.8% of total output in 2008.
Ohio’s manufacturing sector produced $84.1 billion worth of goods