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2011 Census of Agriculture
Statistics Canada would like to thank all of Canada’s agriculture operators for taking the time to fill out the Census of Agriculture questionnaire. If you haven’t participated yet, please call our agriculture help line at 1-855-828-8956.
Watch for the latest release from the Census of Agriculture coming May 10, 2012.
The Census of Agriculture provides a statistical portrait of Canada's agriculture industry and its farm operators and families. Read about what's new for this Census of Agriculture and find answers to all your questions.
The last Census of Agriculture, in 2006, told us that Canada's agriculture industry has:
- 229,000 farms
- 67.6 million hectares of total farm area
- 35.9 million hectares of land in crops (excluding Christmas trees)
- 15.8 million cattle
- 15.0 million hogs
- 125.3 million hens and chickens
- $248.3 billion in farm capital
- $42.2 billion in total gross farm receipts
- 2.2% of Canada's total population (known as the farm population)
- 327,000 farm operators, of which
- 27.7% are female and
- 52.0 years is their average age.
