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This products provides information on Alberta Farm Cash Receipts from the Sales of Crops during a 30-year period. Total Crop Market Cash Receipts of Wheat, Oats, Barley, Rye, Flaxseed, Canola, Sugar Beets, Dry Peas, Mustard Seed, Sunflower Seed, Lentils, Forage and Grass Seed, Hay and Clover, Potatoes, Total Vegetables, Floriculture and Nursery, and Other Crops is included.

Contained within the 4th Edition (1974) of the Atlas of Canada is a collection of four maps. The first map shows the value, by census division, of hay and fodder farm sales for 1960 to 1961. The second map shows the size and extent of seeded acres, by census division, for hay and fodder. Both of these first two maps are accompanied by supplementary texts giving the total values for Canada, the provinces and the territories.

Contained within the 3rd Edition (1957) of the Atlas of Canada is a map that shows two condensed maps of the distribution of the agricultural labour force as of the 1951 census. The labour force engaged in agriculture includes farmers; stock raisers; farm managers and foremen; farm labourers; the personnel of establishments primarily engaged in custom threshing, ploughing, silo filling, hay bailing, chicken hatching, egg grading, seed cleaning, etc. ; and the personnel of establishments engaged in tree pruning, tree spraying, tree surgery, landscape gardening and flower growing, etc. This map is accompanied by a pie chart showing the percentage distribution of the labour force engaged in agriculture by major occupational groups for 1951.

Contained within the 3rd Edition (1957) of the Atlas of Canada is a map that shows two condensed maps illustrating the division of Canada into agricultural regions based on the percentage of total gross farm revenue obtained from a particular source in 1951. The four primary divisions were made according to specific criteria. For Livestock Specialty divisions 70% or more of the gross farm revenue was from sales of livestock and livestock products. This was divided into three subdivisions: Dairy Emphasis, where sales of dairy products made up over 40% of total sales; Cattle Emphasis, where sales of cattle made up over 40% of sales; and General, where neither dairy products or cattle sales represented over 40% of total sales of livestock and livestock products.

Contained within the 4th Edition (1974) of the Atlas of Canada is a set of four maps. The first map shows the size and extent of seeded acres, by census division, for flaxseed. The second map shows the value, by census division, of fruit, vegetable and horticultural product farm sales for 1960 to 1961. The third map shows the size and extent of fruit orchard acreage, by census division, for 1961.

Contained within the 4th Edition (1974) of the Atlas of Canada are two sets of maps. In the first set, the maps show the value, by census division, of horse farm sales and sheep farm sales for 1960 to 1961. Both of these first maps are accompanied by a supplementary text giving the total sales values for Canada, the provinces and the territories. In the second set, the first map shows the value, by census division, of potato, root (turnips, mangels etc.

Contained within the 4th Edition (1974) of the Atlas of Canada is a set of four maps. These maps show the size and extent as of 1961 of seeded acres, by census division, for tobacco, sugar beets and soybeans. Each map is accompanied by a supplementary text giving the total area for Canada, the provinces and the territories. The oilseeds map shows the combined value of farm sales for 1960 to 1961 for flax, soybean, sunflower, rape, mustard and safflower crops.

Potatoes, especially processing potatoes, have become a major Canadian commodity; the 2002 crop had a total farm value of 978.0 million Canadian dollars. In the 1999 to 2000 crop year, Canada exported 637.3 million Canadian dollars worth of frozen fries and imported 18.1 million Canadian dollars worth, for a healthy trade surplus of 619.2 million dollars.

Census of Agriculture, 2021. Land in field crops and hay.

Census of Agriculture, 2011 and 2016. Land in field crops and hay.