The Daily Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Press Release
Farm income, 2016
Realized net farm income rose 7.6% in 2016 to $8.8 billion. This marks the third consecutive year, and the sixth time in seven years that realized net farm income has increased.
Farm cash receipts, first quarter 2017
Farm cash receipts for Canadian farmers totalled $16.1 billion in the first quarter of 2017, up 1.0% from the same quarter a year earlier. Increases in program payments (+56.8%) and crop receipts (+0.5%) were just enough to offset a decline in livestock receipts (-2.7%).
2016 Census of Agriculture: Production efficiency and prices drive trends in livestock
Fluctuating prices and demand, coupled with improved production efficiencies, continued to shape the livestock sector in 2016.
Stocks of frozen and chilled meats, April 2017
Stocks of frozen and chilled meats in cold storage totalled 114 020 tonnes in April, largely unchanged from the same month a year earlier (-0.6%).
Ecosystem accounting: Thematic accounts, 1971
Digitized 1971 enumeration area (EA) boundaries are now available for all 33 census metropolitan areas defined by the 2011 Census of Population.
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