Why do we conduct this survey?

The purpose of this survey is to collect information for producing national and provincial level estimates of potato production and value.

These estimates will be used to assess the economic health of the industry. Agricultural producers and industry analysts will work with this information to make production and marketing decisions, and government analysts will use it to develop agricultural policies in Canada.

Your information may also be used by Statistics Canada for other statistical and research purposes.

Your participation in this survey is required under the authority of the Statistics Act.

Other important information

Authorization to collect this information

Data are collected under the authority of the Statistics Act, Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, Chapter S-19.

Confidentiality

By law, Statistics Canada is prohibited from releasing any information it collects that could identify any person, business, or organization, unless consent has been given by the respondent, or as permitted by the Statistics Act. Statistics Canada will use the information from this survey for statistical purposes only.

Record linkages

To enhance the data from this survey and to reduce the reporting burden, Statistics Canada may combine the acquired data with information from other surveys or from administrative sources.

Data-sharing agreements

To reduce respondent burden, Statistics Canada has entered into data-sharing agreements with provincial and territorial statistical agencies and other government organizations, which have agreed to keep the data confidential and use them only for statistical purposes. Statistics Canada will only share data from this survey with those organizations that have demonstrated a requirement to use the data.

Section 11 of the Statistics Act provides for the sharing of information with provincial and territorial statistical agencies that meet certain conditions. These agencies must have the legislative authority to collect the same information, on a mandatory basis, and the legislation must provide substantially the same provisions for confidentiality and penalties for disclosure of confidential information as the Statistics Act. Because these agencies have the legal authority to compel businesses to provide the same information, consent is not requested and businesses may not object to the sharing of the data.

For this survey, there are Section 11 agreements with the provincial statistical agencies of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. The shared data will be limited to information pertaining to business establishments located within the jurisdiction of the respective province.

Section 12 of the Statistics Act provides for the sharing of information with federal, provincial or territorial government organizations. Under Section 12, you may refuse to share your information with any of these organizations by writing a letter of objection to the Chief Statistician, specifying the organizations with which you do not want Statistics Canada to share your data and mailing it to the following address:

Chief Statistician of Canada
Statistics Canada
Attention of Director, Enterprise Statistics Division
150 Tunney's Pasture Driveway
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0T6

You may also contact us by email at statcan.esdhelpdesk-dsebureaudedepannage.statcan@statcan.gc.ca or by fax at 613-951-6583.

For this survey, there is a Section 12 agreement with the Prince Edward Island Statistical agency.

For agreements with provincial and territorial government organizations, the shared data will be limited to information pertaining to business establishments located within the jurisdiction of the respective province or territory.

Business or organization and contact information

1. Verify or provide the business or organization's legal and operating name and correct where needed.

Note: Legal name modifications should only be done to correct a spelling error or typo.

Legal Name
The legal name is one recognized by law, thus it is the name liable for pursuit or for debts incurred by the business or organization. In the case of a corporation, it is the legal name as fixed by its charter or the statute by which the corporation was created.

Modifications to the legal name should only be done to correct a spelling error or typo.

To indicate a legal name of another legal entity you should instead indicate it in question 3 by selecting 'Not currently operational' and then choosing the applicable reason and providing the legal name of this other entity along with any other requested information.

Operating Name
The operating name is a name the business or organization is commonly known as if different from its legal name. The operating name is synonymous with trade name.

• Legal name
• Operating name (if applicable)

2. Verify or provide the contact information of the designated business or organization contact person for this questionnaire and correct where needed.

Note: The designated contact person is the person who should receive this questionnaire. The designated contact person may not always be the one who actually completes the questionnaire.

• First name
• Last name
• Title
• Preferred language of communication
  • English
  • French
• Mailing address (number and street)
• City
• Province, territory or state
• Postal code or ZIP code
• Country
  • Canada
  • United States
• Email address
• Telephone number (including area code)
• Extension number (if applicable)
  The maximum number of characters is 5.
• Fax number (including area code)

3. Verify or provide the current operational status of the business or organization identified by the legal and operating name above.

• Operational
• Not currently operational

Why is this business or organization not currently operational?

Seasonal operations

• When did this business or organization close for the season? Date
• When does this business or organization expect to resume operations? Date

Ceased operations

• When did this business or organization cease operations? Date
• Why did this business or organization cease operations?
  • Bankruptcy
  • Liquidation
  • Dissolution
  • Other
    Specify the other reasons for ceased operations

Sold operations

• When was this business or organization sold? Date
• What is the legal name of the buyer?

Amalgamated with other businesses or organizations

• When did this business or organization amalgamate? Date
• What is the legal name of the resulting or continuing business or organization?
• What are the legal names of the other amalgamated businesses or organizations?

Temporarily inactive but will re-open

• When did this business or organization become temporarily inactive? Date
• When does this business or organization expect to resume operations? Date
• Why is this business or organization temporarily inactive?

No longer operating due to other reasons

• When did this business or organization cease operations? Date
• Why did this business or organization cease operations?

4. Verify or provide the current main activity of the business or organization identified by the legal and operating name above.

Note: The described activity was assigned using the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).

This question verifies the business or organization's current main activity as classified by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is an industry classification system developed by the statistical agencies of Canada, Mexico and the United States. Created against the background of the North American Free Trade Agreement, it is designed to provide common definitions of the industrial structure of the three countries and a common statistical framework to facilitate the analysis of the three economies. NAICS is based on supply-side or production-oriented principles, to ensure that industrial data, classified to NAICS, are suitable for the analysis of production-related issues such as industrial performance.

The target entity for which NAICS is designed are businesses and other organizations engaged in the production of goods and services. They include farms, incorporated and unincorporated businesses and government business enterprises. They also include government institutions and agencies engaged in the production of marketed and non-marketed services, as well as organizations such as professional associations and unions and charitable or non-profit organizations and the employees of households.

The associated NAICS should reflect those activities conducted by the business or organizational units targeted by this questionnaire only, as identified in the 'Answering this questionnaire' section and which can be identified by the specified legal and operating name. The main activity is the activity which most defines the targeted business or organization's main purpose or reason for existence. For a business or organization that is for-profit, it is normally the activity that generates the majority of the revenue for the entity.

The NAICS classification contains a limited number of activity classifications; the associated classification might be applicable for this business or organization even if it is not exactly how you would describe this business or organization's main activity.

Please note that any modifications to the main activity through your response to this question might not necessarily be reflected prior to the transmitting of subsequent questionnaires and as a result they may not contain this updated information.

The following is the detailed description including any applicable examples or exclusions for the classification currently associated with this business or organization.

 

Description and examples

• This is the current main activity
• This is not the current main activity

Provide a brief but precise description of this business or organization's main activity

e.g., breakfast cereal manufacturing, shoe store, software development

Main activity

5. You indicated that is not the current main activity.

Was this business or organization's main activity ever classified as: ?

• Yes
  When did the main activity change?
  Date
• No

6. Search and select the industry classification code that best corresponds to this business or organization's main activity.

Select this business or organization's activity sector (optional)

• Farming or logging operation
• Construction company or general contractor
• Manufacturer
• Wholesaler
• Retailer
• Provider of passenger or freight transportation
• Provider of investment, savings or insurance products
• Real estate agency, real estate brokerage or leasing company
• Provider of professional, scientific or technical services
• Provider of health care or social services
• Restaurant, bar, hotel, motel or other lodging establishment
• Other sector

Area planted and harvested

1. What was the total area of potatoes planted in 2018 ?

Report for the entire operation.
Report the area of potatoes planted on land owned or rented by all partners in the operation.

Planted area refers to an area of land that potatoes were planted on during the spring of the reference year.

Total area planted

Unit of measure

• Acres
• Hectares

2. What was the total area of potatoes harvested in 2018 ?

Report for the entire operation.
Report the area of potatoes harvested on land owned or rented by all partners in the operation.

Total area harvested

Unit of measure

• Acres
• Hectares

Yield or production

3. For the potatoes harvested in 2018 , would you prefer to report the average yield or total production?

Yield is the measure of a crop produced from single unit of land area.
To calculate: yield = production / harvested area of land
For example, if you produced 2,500 cwt of potatoes on 10 acres of land, yield is 250 cwt per acre.

Production is the amount of crop produced from all harvested land area.
To calculate: production = yield * harvested area of land
For example, if you produced 250 cwt per acre of potatoes and harvested 10 acres, production would be 2,500 cwt.

• Average yield
• Total production

Average field run yield

4. What was the average field run yield of harvested potatoes?

Report yield based on the harvested area only.

Include all harvested potatoes, not just the marketable yield.

Average yield

Unit of measure per acre/hectare

• Metric tonnes
• Hundredweight (cwt)
• Imperial tons
• Barrels (165 pounds)
• Pounds

Total field run production

5. What was the total field run production of harvested potatoes?

Report the total production for the operation.

Include all harvested potatoes, not just the marketable production.

Total production

Unit of measure

• Metric tonnes
• Hundredweight (cwt)
• Imperial tons
• Barrels (165 pounds)
• Pounds
• 10 pound bag
• 25 pound bag
• 50 pound bag
• 75 pound bag
• Kilograms

Harvested crop grade

6. What percentage of your harvested crop do you expect to make grade?

Report the percentage that you expect to make grade for table, seed or processing as defined by the grading standard of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, your provincial grading standards or your processor.

Of the potatoes that were stored, the percentage that will be marketable are considered to 'make grade'.
For example: 100 pounds of potatoes were stored, however, only 90% of the potatoes will be marketable/make grade.
Report: 90%

Percentage

Agricultural production

7. Which of the following agricultural products are currently being produced on this operation?

Select all that apply.

• Field crops
• Hay
• Summerfallow
• Potatoes
• Fruit, berries and nuts
• Vegetables
• Sod
• Nursery products
• Greenhouse products
• Cattle and calves
• Include beef or dairy.
• Pigs
• Sheep and lambs
• Mink
• Fox
• Hens and chickens
• Turkeys
• Maple taps
• Honey bees
• Mushrooms
• Other
  • Specify agricultural products
• Not producing agricultural products

Area in crops

8. What area of this operation is used for the following crops?

Report the areas only once, even if used for more than one crop type.

Exclude land used by others.

What area of this operation is used for the following crops?
 

	Area	Unit of measure
Field crops
Hay
Summerfallow
Potatoes
Fruit, berries and nuts
Vegetables
Sod
Nursery products
List of unit measures Acres Hectares Arpents

Greenhouse area

9. What is the total area under glass, plastic or other protection used for growing plants?

Total area

Unit of measure

• square feet
• square metres

Livestock (excluding birds)

10. How many of the following animals are on this operation?

Report all animals on this operation, regardless of ownership, including those that are boarded, custom-fed or fed under contract.

Include all animals kept by this operation, regardless of ownership, that are pastured on a community pasture, grazing co-op or public land.
Exclude animals owned but kept on a farm, ranch or feedlot operated by someone else.

How many of the following animals are on this operation?
 

	Number
Cattle and calves
Pigs
Sheep and lambs
Mink
Fox

Birds

11. How many of the following birds are on this operation?

Report all poultry on this operation, regardless of ownership, including those grown under contract.

Include poultry for sale and poultry for personal use.
Exclude poultry owned but kept on an operation operated by someone else.

How many of the following birds are on this operation?
 

	Number
Hens and chickens
Turkeys

Maple taps

12. What was the total number of taps made on maple trees last spring?

Total number of taps

Honey bees

13. How many live colonies of honey bees (used for honey production or pollination) are owned by this operation?

Include bees owned, regardless of location.

Number of colonies

Mushrooms

14. What is the total mushroom growing area (standing footage) on this operation?

Include mushrooms grown using beds, trays, tunnels or logs.

Total area

Unit of measure

• square feet
• square metres

Changes or events

1. Indicate any changes or events that affected the reported values for this business or organization, compared with the last reporting period.

Select all that apply.

• Strike or lock-out
• Exchange rate impact
• Price changes in goods or services sold
• Contracting out
• Organizational change
• Price changes in labour or raw materials
• Natural disaster
• Recession
• Change in product line
• Sold business or business units
• Expansion
• New or lost contract
• Plant closures
• Acquisition of business or business units
• Other
  • Specify the other changes or events
• No changes or events

Contact person

1. Statistics Canada may need to contact the person who completed this questionnaire for further information. Is Provided Given Names Provided Family Name the best person to contact?

• Yes
• No

Who is the best person to contact about this questionnaire?

• First name
• Last name
• Title
• Email address
• Telephone number (including area code)
• Extension number (if applicable)
  The maximum number of characters is 5.
• Fax number (including area code)

Feedback

1. How long did it take to complete this questionnaire?

Include the time spent gathering the necessary information.

• Hours
• Minutes

2. Do you have any comments about this questionnaire?

Enter your comments