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Both red and green lentils are grown in Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan is the world's largest exporter of lentils, exporting 67% per cent of the world lentils. [28] Finally several pea varieties are harvested in Saskatchewan. Pulse crops provide diversification in crop production, provide farm revenue to farmers, and lengthen crop rotation.
In 2018, there were 967,700 dairy cows on 10,679 farms across the country. [2] Quebec and Ontario are the major dairy producing provinces, with 5,120 and 3,534 farms, which produce 37% and 33% of Canada's total milk. [3] This is supposed to represent 8% of farmers in Canada. [4]
Concrete grain elevator in Alberta. Various factors affect the socio-economic characteristics of Canadian agriculture. The 2006 Census of Agriculture listed seven: [2] Quantity and type of farms; Biogeography: crop and land use areas; land management practices; Quantity of livestock and poultry; Agricultural engineering: Farm machinery and equipment; Farm capital; Farm operating expenses and ...
This article is a list of historic places in rural municipalities of the province of Saskatchewan entered on the Canadian Register of Historic Places, whether they are federal, provincial, or municipal.
Saskatchewan's largest and smallest rural municipalities are the RM of Corman Park No. 344 and the RM of Glen McPherson No. 46 with populations of 8,568 and 72 respectively. [ 4 ] The northern half of the province does not lie within any rural municipality, but is rather administered by the provincial government through the Northern ...
Saskatchewan accounts for 20% of all Canadian farmers and has the largest farms with an average farm size of 1283 acres (up from 1,152 acres (5 km 2) in the last census). The province had nearly 40% of the agricultural land in Canada, nearly 13 million acres (53,000 km 2 ) more than second-place Alberta.
As of the 2011 Canadian census, there were 102 farms in the Willow Bunch area, operated by a total of 125 farmers. The average age of farm operators in the area is 53.4, while the average farmer's age overall in Saskatchewan is 54.2. In the area, there are 16 animal production farms and 86 crop production farms. [115]
Drake is mostly a farming community, supported by the crops and livestock of the surrounding farms. However, two successful large-scale businesses, Drake Meat Processors [11] and Bergen Industries, [12] were founded in and operate from the village, keeping it from becoming a loose connection of farms.