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This article sheds light on the competitiveness of Canada’s agriculture in the global market by drawing cross-country comparisons of selected agricultural commodities.

Despite challenges faced by the Canadian agricultural industry—labour challenges, supply chain disruptions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and an increase in extreme weather occurrences related to climate change—Canada’s agriculture stacks up relatively well against selected developed nations, such as Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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This reference guide provides an overview of the Agricultural Ecumene Boundary File product (see the notes below), including the general methodology used to create the files and other important technical information.

This product is provided in printable format.

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The Agricultural Ecumene Boundary File delineates areas of significant agricultural activity in Canada. This product is generalized for small-scale mapping and can be used to clip or intersect with any geographic boundary file, administrative or natural, to limit the data display to those areas where agricultural activity is concentrated in Canada. When used in dot density and choropleth thematic maps, the ecumene concept provides a more accurate depiction of the spatial distribution of data within geographic areas.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: This article presents the highlights and a brief analysis of the results from the 2021 Census of Agriculture for the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Description: This article presents the highlights and a brief analysis of the results from the 2021 Census of Agriculture for the province of Prince Edward Island.

Description: This article presents the highlights and a brief analysis of the results from the 2021 Census of Agriculture for the province of Nova Scotia.

Description: This article presents the highlights and a brief analysis of the results from the 2021 Census of Agriculture for the province of New Brunswick.

Description: This article presents the highlights and a brief analysis of the results from the 2021 Census of Agriculture for the province of Quebec.

Description: This article presents the highlights and a brief analysis of the results from the 2021 Census of Agriculture for the province of Ontario.

Description: Agriculture–National Household Survey Linkage, 2011. Total population and farm population classified by religious affiliation.

Description: Farm operators and persons in the labour force by country of birth from the Socioeconomic overview of the farm population.

Description: Human Activity and the Environment: Detailed Statistics (16-201-S) is a collection of statistics focusing on human activities from an environmental perspective. Data are compiled from many sources including Statistics Canada, federal government departments, provincial governments and other sources. It is complimented by Human Activity and the Environment (16-201-X), which provides analysis on current environmental issues.

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The profiles include agricultural statistics on population and farm operators, land use and land practices, farm finances, crops and horticulture, and livestock for most communities at the census consolidated subdivision (CCS), census division (CD) and census agriculture region (CAR) geographic levels. The 2006 Agriculture Community Profiles provide free information from Statistics Canada's 2006 Census of Agriculture data.

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This product presents historical farm and operator data for selected variables from past censuses. These variables include size of farm, total farm area, gross farm receipts, farm capital, and characteristics of farm operators such as age and sex of farm operators, residency on or off of the farm, and work on and off the farm.

Description: This product presents basic counts and totals for all 2006 Census of Agriculture farm variables and farm operator variables. Farm variables include number and type of farms; crop, horticulture and land use areas; land management practices; numbers of livestock and poultry; organic farming; computer use; farm machinery and equipment; farm capital; farm operating expenses and receipts and farm-related injuries. The farm operator variables depict the men and women who make the management decisions on Canadian farms. They include number of farm operators, age, sex, residence status, farm and non-farm work. The product provides a comprehensive picture of the agriculture industry across Canada.

These data from the 2006 Census of Agriculture are available at the Canada, province, territory, census agricultural region (CAR), census division (CD) and census consolidated subdivision (CCS) geographic levels.

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Water is a basic necessity of life: access to clean water in sufficient quantity is an integral part of our well-being. It has had a strong influence on Canada's development as a country and remains a precious part of our natural resource wealth.

While Canadians live in a country with a plentiful supply of fresh water, they are also concerned about a number of water-related issues. These include the availability, distribution, use and quality of water, as well as the controls placed on water usage. This article examines these issues by creating a statistical portrait of Canada's fresh water resources.

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This product presents basic counts and totals for all 2001 Census of Agriculture farm variables, including number and type of farms; crop, horticulture and land use areas; land management practices; numbers of livestock and poultry; organic farming; computer use; farm machinery and equipment; farm capital; and farm operating expenses and receipts. It provides a comprehensive picture of the agriculture industry across Canada. It depicts the men and women who make the day-to-day management decisions on Canadian farms. The farm operator variables include number of farm operators, age, sex, residence status, farm and non-farm work and farm-related injuries. This product also presents selected historical farm and farm operator data for Canada and the provinces. The geographic levels presented include Canada, the provinces/territories, census agricultural regions (CAR), census divisions (CD) and the census consolidated subdivisions (CCS). The CCS level is the lowest level of geography available in standard tabulations.

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This free Internet product presents all farm operator data from the 2001 Census of Agriculture. It depicts the men and women who make the day-to-day management decisions on Canadian farms. The farm operator variables include number of farm operators, age, sex, residence status, farm and non-farm work, and farm-related injuries.This product contains data at the Canada, province, census agricultural region (CAR) and census division (CD) levels.

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This product presents basic counts and totals for all 2001 Census of Agriculture farm variables, including number and type of farms; crop, horticulture and land use areas; land management practices; numbers of livestock and poultry; organic farming; computer use; farm machinery and equipment; farm capital; and farm operating expenses and receipts. It provides a comprehensive picture of the agriculture industry across Canada.These data from the initial release of the 2001 Census of Agriculture are available at the Canada, province, territory, census agricultural region (CAR) and census division (CD) levels.This product replaces the series of eight Agricultural Profile publications (one for Canada, one for the Atlantic Provinces, and one for each of the other six provinces) produced for the 1996 Census of Agriculture.

Description: Based on the data from the 2016 Census of Agriculture, this infographic gives an overview of farm operations that sell directly to consumers for human consumption in Canada.

Description: Based on the data from the 2016 Census of Agriculture, this infographic gives an overview of gross farm receipts, operating expenses, and farm capital in Canada.

Description: Based on the data from the 2016 Census of Agriculture, this infographic gives an overview of the horticulture sector in Canada.

Description: Based on the data from the 2016 Census of Agriculture, this infographic gives an overview of the field crops sector in Canada.

Description: Based on the data from the 2016 Census of Agriculture, this infographic gives an overview of the livestock sector in Canada.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: Based on the data from the 2016 Census of Agriculture, this infographic gives an overview of farm and farm operator characteristics in Canada.

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This article describes the development of the soybean production in Canada since the 1960s.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: This study uses data from the 2011 Census of Agriculture to examine wildlife habitat available on agricultural land, benefits that agriculture receives from wildlife, and mutually-beneficial farm practices.

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This activity focusses on changes in the way in which fruit and vegetable producers are selling their produce. Using the pumpkin industry as a case study, it examines the agri-tourism trend.

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In this activity, students learn about the different medicinal herbs that are being grown on Canadian farms.

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This activity considers some of the new produce we are seeing in Canadian grocery stores. It looks at the origins of these vegetables, and how they made it to the produce aisle.

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This activity focuses on how water is used for irrigation, the benefits and risks associated with irrigation and the ways farmers manage their water use.

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This activity explores the use of pesticides in protecting crops, including the risks and benefits.

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This activity is designed to show students some of the changes affecting Prairie agriculture over the past 100 years, and how Prairie farmers have adapted to them.

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Western Canadian grain farmers are seeing profound economic and technological changes in their industry. This activity looks at the ways in which these trends have affected grain elevators and grain transportation in Western Canada.

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This activity looks at declining demand for fall rye and the resultant decline in the amount grown on the Prairies. Using rye as a case study, we see how changes in agricultural practices and changes in the population affect what farmers grow.

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This Reference Guide is available for both the Internet (Catalogue No. 92F0174XIE) and CD-ROM (Catalogue No. 92F0174XCB) versions of the Census Agricultural Regions Boundary File for the 2001 Census of Agriculture product. The guide not only describes the content, uses and technical specifications of this product, but also provides notes on the data quality and general methodology used to create it.

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This Cartographic Boundary File for Canada contains the boundaries of all 82 census agricultural regions delineated for the 2001 Census of Agriculture together with the shoreline around Canada and the larger inland lakes, all integrated in a single layer. The boundary file coordinates are latitude/longitude and are based on the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83). The file is available in both ARC/INFO Interchange and MapInfo Interchange formats and a reference guide is also provided.

Cartographic Boundary Files can be used with Census of Population, Census of Agriculture or other Statistics Canada data for data analysis and thematic mapping (with appropriate software). Geographic codes provide the linkage between the statistical data and the geographic area boundaries. Cartographic Boundary Files can also be used to create new geographic areas by aggregating standard geographic areas, and for other data manipulations available with the user's software. The Cartographic Boundary Files are positionally consistent with the Road Network Files and Skeletal Road Network Files, which can provide additional geographic context for mapping applications.