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Treatment of stored manure, Canada and provinces, 2001
  Aeration Additives Filtrating marsh Composting Drying Other treatments None
Share of farms with livestock (%)
Newfoundland and Labrador
0.0
0.0
X
X
X
0.0
77.8
Prince Edward Island
X
X
X
39.5
7.5
3.0
50.0
Nova Scotia
2.6
X
X
46.2
X
X
40.7
New Brunswick
X
4.6
X
X
16.0
X
51.7
Quebec
6.8
2.0
0.3
11.0
1.4
4.3
77.7
Ontario
2.9
3.1
0.8
28.6
9.1
4.5
58.0
Manitoba
6.7
X
X
51.1
19.4
6.1
35.3
Saskatchewan
2.1
X
X
44.0
31.2
7.2
32.9
Alberta
3.5
0.8
0.2
60.2
18.2
4.8
27.8
British Columbia
3.8
X
X
48.2
15.1
9.1
39.4
Canada
4.0
1.8
0.4
37.8
14.6
5.3
47.9
Notes:
1. Where no error letter appears by a number the standard error ranges between 0.005% and 12.49%. Results are considered excellent to acceptable.
2. The share of farms with livestock do not sum to 100% because an individual farm could report more than one type of treatment.
Source: Statistics Canada, 2001 Farm Environmental Management Survey.