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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.

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animal products, apples, apricots, asparagus, balers, barley, beef, bees, beets, blueberries, broccoli, brussels sprouts, buckwheat, bulls, cabbages, calves, canola, carrots, cattle, cattle farms, cauliflower, celery, census divisions, chemical fertilizers, cherries, chickens, chickpeas, christmas trees, coarse grains, combine harvesters, computer use, corn, corporations, cows, crop rotation, cropping practices, crude oil, cucumbers, cultivated land, custom work, dairies, diesel fuel oil, dried beans, dried peas, durum wheat, eggs, electric power, electronic mail, farm capital, farm cash receipts, farm expenditures, farm vehicles, farming, feed, fertilizers, field crops, flaxseed, floriculture, flowers and plants, fodder crops, foxes, fruit, fruit farms, fuel costs, fungicides, gasoline, goats, grains, green and wax beans, greenhouse grown vegetables, greenhouses, herbicides, hogs, horses, insecticides, internet, irrigation, lambs, land, land management, legumes, lentils, lettuce, lime, machinery, maintenance and repairs, manure, maple syrup, maple trees, mechanical work, mink, mushrooms, mustard seed, natural gas, nurseries, nuts, oats, oilseeds, onions, organic farming, paid work, partnerships, pasture, peaches, pears, peas, peppers, pesticides, pig farms, plums, potatoes, poultry, poultry farms, proprietors, pumpkins, rabbits, radishes, raspberries, rentals and leasing services, rye, salaries and wages, seeds, sheep, sod, sole proprietorships, soybeans, spinach, squash, steers, strawberries, sugar beets, summerfallow, swathers, telecommunications, telephones, tobacco, tomatoes, tractors, turkeys, turnips, vegetable farms, vegetables, veterinary medicine, veterinary services, waterways, weed control, windbreaks, wood.

Free access

These data are available at no additional charge to Canadian educational institutions participating in the Data Liberation Initiative.

Bilingual products

Some bilingual products have changed to separate English and French products. In these cases, back issues are bilingual and the more recent issues are unilingual.

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