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The financial picture of farms in Canada

Table 4
Expense-to-receipts ratios by farm type, Canada, 1995, 2000 and 2005
Farm type	Less than $25,000	$25,000 to $99,999	$100,000 to $249,999	$250,000 to $999,999	$1 million and over	All farms 2005	All farms 2000	All farms 1995
Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Agriculture, 1996 to 2006
Dairy	1.89	0.81	0.72	0.72	0.74	0.73	0.74	0.71
Beef	1.62	0.96	0.85	0.85	0.96	0.93	0.94	0.91
Hog and pig	2.51	0.90	0.82	0.86	0.86	0.86	0.85	0.88
Poultry and egg	1.78	0.88	0.82	0.81	0.85	0.84	0.86	0.88
All other animal production	2.14	1.02	0.83	0.82	0.76	0.93	0.94	0.88
Field crops	1.54	0.94	0.86	0.84	0.83	0.87	0.86	0.78
Fruit and vegetable	1.54	0.89	0.84	0.81	0.87	0.87	0.88	0.84
Greenhouse, nursery and floriculture	1.45	0.82	0.79	0.80	0.87	0.86	0.85	0.84
All farms	1.68	0.94	0.83	0.81	0.87	0.86	0.87	0.83