Farm Management Survey - 2017
The Farm Management Survey is designed to contribute to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's work on measuring management practices on Canadian farms. The data from this survey was collected from February to April 2018, based on 2017 farm operation experience.
The Farm Management Survey is built to be representative of 81% of the Canadian agricultural production in 7 specific production subsectors: dairy, beef, poultry, pigs, field crops, forage crops, and fruit, vegetables, berries and nut production. Not all geographic areas are represented by the data. Only those with significant national production in one of those 7 subsectors are included in the sampling.For the purpose of this survey, field crops are defined as annual crops grown for grain, seed, forage feed (hay, silage, or greenfeed), or grazing.
The total number of field crop producer responses included in this survey was 2,937 and were distributed by province as follows: Alberta – 548; Saskatchewan – 724, Manitoba – 279; Ontario – 982; and Quebec – 404.Given that Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and British Columbia did not have significant national production of field crops, grain producers from these provinces were not included in the survey.
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Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) by buffer maintained between permanent wetlands or waterways and cropland
A buffer refers to an area of planted or natural vegetation that is beside a permanent wetland or waterway, extending from the shoreline to the edge of a field.
Figures expressed as a percentage of total field crop operations with permanent wetlands or waterways adjacent to crops.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) by proportion of shoreline adjacent to field crop operations cropland with a buffer
A buffer refers to an area of planted or natural vegetation that is beside a permanent wetland or waterway, extending from the shoreline to the edge of a field.
Figures expressed as a percentage of total field crop operations with a buffer maintained between permanent wetlands or waterways and field cropland.
Columns may not add up to 100% as some of the data has been suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act.
Source: Farm Management Survey 2017
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) that applied an input using a calibrated sprayer
Inputs include herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, biopesticides and other types of pesticides.
Figures expressed as a percentage of total field crop operations having used a sprayer to apply inputs.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) that applied an input by the frequency of sprayer calibration
Inputs include herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, biopesticides and other types of pesticides.
Figures expressed as a percentage of total field crop operations having used a calibrated sprayer to apply inputs.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) by use of companion crops on field crop operations
Companion crops are two different crops grown at the same time on the same land.
Includes intercropping where both are seeded at the same time, as well as relay cropping where the second crop is seeded later between the rows of an existing crop.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) by use of fall or winter cover crops on field crop operations
Fall and winter cover crops include fall seeded crops that are grazed or harvested for forage in the spring prior to reseeding. Fall and winter cover crops exclude fall seeded crops that are harvested for grain, e.g., fall rye or winter wheat.
Cover crops are crops seeded in late summer or fall providing overwinter vegetative cover. Growth is terminated in spring to allow planting of the next year’s crop.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) by management of crop residue coming from grain or seed production.
The sum may be greater than 100% as an operator could employ multiple crop management techniques.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) by crop rotation practices.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) by presence of custom operators used to perform farm work.
Figures expressed as a percentage of total field crop operations.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) by formal, written environmental farm plan.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) with a formal, written environmental farm plan by period of development or last updated
Source: Statistique Canada Enquête sur la gestion des fermes 2017
Chiffres exprimés en pourcentage de l’ensemble des exploitations de grandes cultures où de l’engrais commercial a été appliqué à la culture la plus courante au printemps 2017 avant le semis.
Engrais commercial s’entend d’une substance fabriquée contenant un ou plusieurs nutriments pour les végétaux et servant à favoriser la croissance des plantes, p. ex. l’azote, le phosphore, le phosphate, le potassium et la potasse.
L’application sous la surface comprend l’application en bandes latérales et en bandes entre les rangs.La somme peut être supérieure à 100 % parce qu’un exploitant peut employer plus d’une méthode d’application des engrais commerciaux.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Figures expressed as a percentage of total field crop operations where commercial fertilizer was applied to their most common crop in the spring of 2017 before seeding.
Commercial fertilizer refers to a manufactured substance containing one or more plant nutrients and is used to promote plant growth. Examples include: nitrogen, phosphorus, phosphate, potassium, potash.
The sum may be greater than 100% as an operator could have employed multiple commercial fertilizer application methods.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017
Percentage of field crop operations by period of commercial fertilizer application
Commercial fertilizer refers to a manufactured substance containing one or more plant nutrients and is used to promote plant growth. Examples include: nitrogen, phosphorus, phosphate, potassium, potash.
Figures expressed as a percentage of total field crop operations where commercial fertilizer was applied to their most common crop.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Figures expressed as a percentage of total field crop operations where commercial fertilizer was applied to their most common crop after seeding in 2017.
Commercial fertilizer refers to a manufactured substance containing one or more plant nutrients and is used to promote plant growth. Examples include: nitrogen, phosphorus, phosphate, potassium, potash.
An example of through irrigation system includes fertigation.
The sum may be greater than 100% as an operator could have employed multiple commercial fertilizer application methods.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) by commercial fertilizer application method used in the fall of 2016.
Commercial fertilizer refers to a manufactured substance containing one or more plant nutrients and is used to promote plant growth. Examples include: nitrogen, phosphorus, phosphate, potassium, potash.
Figures expressed as a percentage of total field crop operations where commercial fertilizer was applied to their most common crop in the fall of 2016.
The sum may be greater than 100% as an operator could have employed multiple commercial fertilizer application methods.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) using corn, soybean or canola GMO seeds
Figures expressed as a percentage of total field crop operations reporting having grown soybean, corn or canola.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) using GPS tracking or guidance systems by type(s) of operations completed.
An example of a GPS tracking or guidance system is autosteer. Figures expressed as a percentage of total field crop operations using GPS tracking or guidance systems.
The sum maybe greater than 100% as an operator could have completed multiple operations as a result of GPS tracking or guidance systems.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) by use of green manure crops.
Green manure crops are crops seeded in spring or early summer, whose growth is terminated before maturity, with all crop biomass incorporated into the soil.
Figures expressed as a percentage of total field crop operations.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) by method(s) used to improve the efficiency or effectiveness of input application.
Inputs include herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and other types of pesticides.
The sum could be greater than 100% as an operator could employ multiple methods to improve the efficiency or effectiveness of an input application.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Percentage of field crop operations having utilized at least two different types of professionals to apply input to their primary or secondary crops
Inputs include herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, biopesticides and other types of pesticides.
Source: Statistics Canada Farm Management Survey 2017
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) by type of professional that applied an input to their primary or secondary crops.
The sum may be greater than 100% as an operation may have had more than one type of professional applying inputs.
Inputs include herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, biopesticides and other types of pesticides.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) by land improvements implemented or installed between 2013 to 2017
Examples of surface drainage include ditches and waterways.
Examples of sub-surface drainage include tiles.
Figures expressed as a percentage of total field crop operations. The sum may be greater than 100% as an operator could have implemented or installed multiple types of land improvements.
Source: Statistics Canada Farm Management Survey 2017.
Figures expressed as a percentage of total field crop operations.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Figures expressed as a percentage of total field crop operations where liquid manure was applied.
Respondents were asked to report the most common practices for all field cropland where liquid manure was applied.
Examples of narrow bands on soil surface, below crop canopy include trailing hose, sleighfoot and sidedress.
The sum may greater than 100% as an operator could have employed multiple liquid manure application methods to grow field crops.
Columns may not add up to 100% as some of the data has been suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act.Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Figures expressed as a percentage of total field crop operations where liquid manure was applied.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Figures expressed as a percentage of total field crop operations where liquid manure was applied.
The sum may be greater than 100% as an operator could have applied liquid manure in a different manner for different fields or crop types.
Columns may not add up to 100% as some of the data has been suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act.Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Figures expressed as a percentage of total field crop operations where only solid manure was applied.
The sum may be greater than 100% as an operator could have applied solid manure in a different manner for different fields or crop types.
Columns may not add up to 100% as some of the data has been suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Figures expressed as a percentage of total field crop operations where only solid manure was applied.
Columns may not add up to 100% as some of the data has been suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act.Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Figures expressed as a percentage of total field crop operations where only solid manure was broadcast on the surface and worked into the soil.
Columns may not add up to 100% as some of the data has been suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Figures expressed as a percentage of total field crop operations where liquid manure was worked into the soil.
Respondents were asked to report the most common practices for all field cropland where liquid manure was applied.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017. Figures expressed as a percentage of total field crop operations where only solid manure was applied.
Columns may not add up to 100% as some of the data has been suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act.Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) by the frequency of liquid manure testing for nutrient content.
Figures expressed as a percentage of total field crop operations where liquid manure was applied.
Columns may not add up to 100% as some of the data has been suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act.Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) by specific trait(s) contained in the genetically modified (GMO) seeds
Figures expressed as a percentage of total field crop operations reporting having used GMO seeds for soybean, corn or canola.
The sum may be greater than 100% as an operator could be searching for multiple traits in a GMO seed.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) by frequency of soil testing for nutrient content.
Source: Farm Management Survey 2017.
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) that applied an input by method(s) used to control spray drift.
Inputs include herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and other types of pesticides.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) by area of land made available for crop production by wetland draining
Figures expressed as a percentage of total field crop operations that drained wetlands to increase land availability.
Columns may not add up to 100% as some of the data has been suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act.
Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) by presence of wetlands or waterways on or adjacent to field crop operations
With seasonal wetlands, water is usually present until mid-summer or early fall. Examples include: ponds, sloughs, marshes, treed swamps.
With permanent wetlands, water is usually present year round. Examples include: lakes, reservoirs, dugouts.
Waterways are channels that contain flowing water year round, or part of the year. Examples include: drainage ditches, streams, creeks, irrigation canals.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) that drained wetlands to increase land availability in the last five years
Wetlands include seasonal wetlands and permanent wetlands.
With seasonal wetlands, water is usually present until mid-summer or early fall. Examples include: ponds, sloughs, marshes, treed swamps.
With permanent wetlands, water is usually present year round. Examples include: lakes, reservoirs, dugouts.
Figures expressed as a percentage of total field crop operations on or adjacent to wetlands.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) by area of land restored to natural wetland through plugging or dyking
Columns may not add up to 100% as some of the data has been suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act.
Source: Statistics Canada, Farm Management Survey, 2017.
Distribution of field crop operations (in percentage) that were previously drained wetlands which were plugged or dyked to restore the land to its natural condition in the last five years
Wetlands include seasonal wetlands and permanent wetlands.
With seasonal wetlands, water is usually present until mid-summer or early fall. Examples include: ponds, sloughs, marshes, treed swamps.
With permanent wetlands, water is usually present year round. Examples include: lakes, reservoirs, dugouts.