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• Table 28   Number of farms and area for selected countries and Census years
• Table 29   Number of farms and farm area, Canada and provinces, 2006 and 2001
• Table 30   Canadian farms by farm type, 2006 and 2001
• Table 31   Net farm income
• Table 32   Average operating revenue and expenses pet farm and operating margins, 2006

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• Chart 13   Number and area of farms, Canada
  

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Table 28  Number of farms and area for selected countries and Census years

	Farms	Total area of farms	Average size
	number	acres
Canada (2001)	246,923	166,802,197	676
Canada (2006)	229,373	167,010,491	728
Argentina (2002)	295,485	425,273,427	1,439
Australia (2001)	140,516	1,126,091,533	8,014
Brazil (1996)	4,859,865	873,773,389	180
China (1997)	193,445,894	321,326,863	2
France (2000)	663,810	73,877,143	111
United Kingdom (2000)	233,250	40,839,774	175
United States (2002)	2,128,982	938,268,725	441
Sources: FAO and Statistics Canada, Census of Agriculture, 2001 and 2006.

 

Table 29  Number of farms and farm area, Canada and provinces, 2006 and 2001

	2006	2001	2006	2001
	number		total farm area (acres)
Canada	229,373	246,923	167,010,491	166,802,197
Newfoundland and Labrador	558	643	89,441	100,271
Prince Edward Island	1,700	1,845	619,885	646,137
Nova Scotia	3,795	3,923	995,943	1,005,833
New Brunswick	2,776	3,034	976,629	958,899
Quebec	30,675	32,139	8,557,101	8,443,656
Ontario	57,211	59,728	13,310,216	13,507,357
Manitoba	19,054	21,071	19,073,005	18,784,407
Saskatchewan	44,329	50,598	64,253,845	64,903,830
Alberta	49,431	53,652	52,127,857	52,058,898
British Columbia	19,844	20,290	7,006,569	6,392,909
Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Agriculture, 2001 and 2006.

 

Table 30  Canadian farms by farm type, 2006 and 2001

	2006		2001
	number	% of total farms	number	% of total farms
All farms	229,373	100.0	246,923	100.0
Dairy	14,651	6.4	18,321	7.4
Beef	60,947	26.6	67,838	27.5
Hog and pig	6,040	2.6	7,388	3.0
Poultry and egg	4,578	2.0	4,937	2.0
All other animal production	30,594	13.3	26,846	10.9
Field crops	91,277	39.8	101,041	40.9
Fruit and vegetables	12,532	5.5	11,663	4.7
Greenhouse, nursery and floriculture	8,754	3.8	8,889	3.6
Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Agriculture, 2001 and 2006.

 

Table 31  Net farm income

	1987	1997	2007
	$ millions
Gross income	21,177	29,021	39,774
Total farm cash receipts including payments	21,346	29,836	40,691
Income in kind	120	54	41
Value of inventory change	-288	-868	-958
Operating expenses and depreciation charges	18,099	27,456	38,575
Operating expenses after rebates	15,387	23,511	33,567
Depreciation charges	2,712	3,945	5,008
Total net income	3,078	1,565	1,199
Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM, table 002-0009.

 

Table 32  Average operating revenues and expenses per farm and operating margins, 2006

	Average operating revenues	Average operating expenses	Operating margins1
	dollars		cents
All farms	242,928	212,274	12.6
Grain and oilseed	163,766	135,740	17.1
Potato	771,448	653,712	15.3
Other vegetable and melon	375,630	319,075	15.1
Fruit and tree nut	181,866	153,937	15.4
Greenhouse, nursery and floriculture	902,752	812,471	10.0
Other crop	99,382	82,438	17.0
Beef cattle and feedlots	190,486	181,242	4.9
Dairy and milk production	403,114	307,232	23.8
Hog and pig	958,250	898,357	6.3
Poultry and egg	835,889	731,708	12.5
Other animal	173,482	154,748	10.8
Notes: Final data. Final 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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