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• In Canada, government support for agriculture producers was 13% of gross farm receipts in 2008, compared with 25% in 2003.
• In 2010, Canadian farmers harvested 10.1 million hectares of wheat. In the United States, farmers harvested 19.2 million hectares and Australian farmers harvested 13.4 million hectares.
• Of Canada's 909.4 million hectares of land, 61.9 million hectares were used for agriculture in 2004. Of 915.9 million hectares in the United States, 409.3 million hectares were used for agriculture.

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