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• Table 34  Average farm size
• Table 35  Farm population
• Table 36  Operating arrangements of farms, 2001
• Table 37  Net farm income
• Table 38  Average operating revenues and expenses per farm and operating margins, 2005

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• Chart 11  Number and area of farms, Canada

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Table 34  Average farm size

	1921	1961	2001
	acres
Canada	198	359	676
Newfoundland and Labrador	..	31	156
Prince Edward Island	89	131	350
Nova Scotia	100	178	256
New Brunswick	116	187	316
Quebec	125	148	263
Ontario	114	153	226
Manitoba	274	420	891
Saskatchewan	369	686	1,283
Alberta	353	645	970
British Columbia	130	226	315
.. not available for a specific reference period
Source: Statistics Canada, censuses of agriculture.

 

Table 35  Farm population

	1931	1961	2001
	number
Total population1	10,363,240	18,200,621	29,914,315
Total farm population1	3,289,140	2,128,327	727,125
	%
Farm population as a percentage of total population	31.7	11.7	2.4
Note: Changes to the definition of 'farm population' affect the comparability of data among censuses.
1. Excludes Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
Source: Statistics Canada, Catalogue no. 95F0303XIE.

 

Table 36  Operating arrangements of farms, 2001

	Number	%
Total number of farms	246,923	100.0
Sole proprietorship	142,915	57.9
Partnership without a written agreement	54,091	21.9
Partnership with a written agreement	16,081	6.5
Family corporation	28,854	11.7
Non-family corporation	4,151	1.7
Other	831	0.3
Source: Statistics Canada, 2001 Census of Agriculture.

 

Table 37  Net farm income

	1985	1995	2005
	$ millions
Gross income	20,652	27,984	37,582
Total cash receipts	19,792	27,123	36,758
Income in kind	199	151	148
Value of inventory change	661	710	677
Operating expenses and depreciation charges	17,860	24,997	34,957
Operating expenses after rebates	15,115	21,535	30,334
Depreciation charges	2,744	3,462	4,622
Net income	2,792	2,987	2,625
Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM table 002-0009.

 

Table 38  Average operating revenues and expenses per farm and operating margins, 2005

	Average operating revenues	Average operating expenses	Operating margins1
	dollars		cents
All farms	221,211	191,905	13.2
Grain and oilseed	150,636	127,369	15.4
Potato	746,060	623,194	16.5
Other vegetable and melon	340,767	293,873	13.8
Fruit and tree nut	179,648	159,547	11.2
Greenhouse, nursery and floriculture	746,796	674,790	9.6
Other crop	92,542	77,151	16.6
Beef cattle and feedlots	169,967	158,629	6.7
Dairy and milk production	379,343	284,607	25.0
Hog and pig	943,158	842,422	10.7
Poultry and egg	832,090	706,307	15.1
Other animal	102,346	98,722	3.5
Notes: Preliminary data. Preliminary estimates include unincorporated farms with total operating revenues of $10,000 and over, and incorporated farms with total operating revenues of $25,000 and over; they exclude communal farming organizations.
1. Defined as one dollar minus operating expenses (before depreciation) per dollar of revenue.
Source: Statistics Canada, Catalogue no. 21-208-XIE.

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