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Farm Input Price Index, first quarter 2015

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Released: 2015-07-07

The Farm Input Price Index decreased by 0.4% in the first quarter.

The main reason for the decline was lower prices for machinery and motor vehicles (-4.2%), in particular for machinery fuel (-16.6%).

To a lesser extent, buildings (-1.4%) also contributed to the decline of the Farm Input Price Index.

Crop production (+1.1%), general business costs (+1.3%) and animal production (+0.1%) recorded price increases.

The index decreased in four provinces. Saskatchewan (-2.5%) posted the largest decline, followed by Quebec (-1.1%), Manitoba (-1.0%) and New Brunswick (-0.3%).

At the Canada level, farm input prices rose 2.7% in the first quarter compared with the same quarter a year earlier.

The year-over-year increase was largely attributable to animal production (+13.6%).

Compared with the first quarter of 2014, the index was up in six provinces. Alberta (+8.3%) recorded the largest year-over-year increase.



  Note to readers

The Farm Input Price Index is an indicator of the change in input costs faced by Canadian farmers. With each release, data for the previous eight quarters may have been revised. The indexes are not seasonally adjusted.

The indexes are available for 13 geographic areas: each of the 10 provinces, Eastern Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario), Western Canada (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia) and Canada total (excluding the territories).

The Farm Input Price Index for the second quarter will be released in October.

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