Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Crop rotation is an agricultural production and land management practice beneficial to sustainable agriculture in Canada. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) produces crop rotation data annually showing the crop rotations used within the agricultural extent of Canada for the last four...

Crop development stage in a numerical scale. All living organisms move from one stage of development to the next over time. For annual crops, it life cycle (growing season) completed within a year. Crop water use differs from one stage to another mostly due to the differences in the amount of...

The Grain Elevators in Canada – 2013 dataset maps the list of grain elevators in Canada as provided by the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC). The elevators have been located as much as possible to an actual location rather than generalizing to the station name centroid. Additionally car spot...

This dataset is no longer maintained by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and should be considered as an archived product. For current estimates of the agricultural extent in Canada please refer to the Agricultural Ecumeme produced by Statistics Canada....

The Grain Elevators in Canada – 2014 dataset maps the list of grain elevators in Canada as provided by the Canadian Grain Commission (CGC). The elevators have been located as much as possible to an actual location rather than generalizing to the station name centroid. Additionally car spot...

These products represent crop health indices derived from the Versatile Soil Moisture Budget (VSMB) model using crop specific coefficients and station based precipitation and temperature measurements to simulate crop growth. The VSMB model simulates soil moisture dynamics and water stress...

This data set was compiled by AAFC from the historic yields of major crops as provided by Statistics Canada and provides support on estimates of crop yield and related statistics.

The following table provides information pertaining to the minor use pesticide study and/or trial status. These studies/trials are managed by the Pest management Center of the AAFC. This table is updated monthly.

The Pest Management Centre’s (PMC) Minor Use Pesticides Program is a joint initiative between Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) to improve the availability of reduced-risk products to agricultural producers and improve the access to a...

The Pest Management Centre Minor Use Pesticides Program is a joint initiative between Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) to improve the availability of reduced-risk products to agricultural producers and improve the access to a broad...

Information about fees the department may charge under the Service Fees Act; policy on remissions of fees.

Citation information for scientific articles published since 2012 co-authored by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) researchers.

Each row in this dataset reports on the wholesale market prices (lowest, highest) on a weekly basis, of a package and grade of a specific variety of a commodity, from a given originating country and/or province or state.

This report, which is tabled under section 20 of the Service Fees Act and section 4.2.8 of the Directive on Charging and Special Financial Authorities, contains information about the fees that Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada had the authority to charge in the 2018 to 2019 fiscal year.

Information about fees the department may charge under the Service Fees Act; policy on remissions of fees.

Information about fees the department may charge under the Service Fees Act; policy on remissions of fees.

The Swift current water quantity and quality is an annual time-series database covering the period of 1962-2011. This database contains datasets for annual runoff volume, peak flow rates, water quality attributes, snow water equivalent and soil moisture from an edge of field study conducted at...

The AAFC Productivity Account for Canadian agriculture is an annual time-series database, covering the years 1961-2011, that is comprised of price index and constant dollar implicit quantity series for gross output and input aggregates. The data are defined at the national level only – i.e. for...

The time-lapse video demonstrates the penetration of mineral oil into a potato plant leaf.