Census number of Farms

[grassfarmer]

Thanks for focussing on the Prairie Provinces....no point in skewing results with BC sized farms.

Like Douglas Lake you mean?

[farmaholic]

Like Douglas Lake you mean?

I'm assuming that's a huge ranch?
.....and I think you know what I mean.

[farming101]

BC Farms

[farmaholic]

See grassy, see....I told you so!

101...now look what you started!


Edit: HEY! IF THE NUMBER OF BC FARMS HAS BEEN FAIRLY STATIC....HOW CAN FARM SIZE BE GROWING(marginally????)? WHERE ARE THEY GETTING THE EXTRA LAND FROM? I THOUGHT THEY WEREN'T MAKING ANY MORE?

[Blaithin]

We have to make room for all of Justin terrorist friends to live and work and kill people.

Yeah... darn all those farmers twenty years ago who started selling out to help gain space for JT. What foresight!

[grassfarmer]

I'm assuming that's a huge ranch?
.....and I think you know what I mean.

Just a half million plus acres now!

[farmaholic]

Just a half million plus acres now!

.....a "little" piece of paradise!

Probably stocking more cervids than bovids.

[Blaithin]

.....a "little" piece of paradise!

Probably stocking more cervids than bovids.

Nope. AFAIK they’re pretty much all Cattle and then forage and crop for the Cattle. 20,000 head and then a bunch of horses.

Hard to meet a true cowboy that hasn’t worked some stint at Douglas Lake. They’re almost straight out of Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy.

[farming101]

Edit: HEY! IF THE NUMBER OF BC FARMS HAS BEEN FAIRLY STATIC....HOW CAN FARM SIZE BE GROWING(marginally????)? WHERE ARE THEY GETTING THE EXTRA LAND FROM? I THOUGHT THEY WEREN'T MAKING ANY MORE?

The census has changed over the years and so the questions asked or the responses given can skew the results when trying to compare one census to another.
[URL="http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/ref/dict/pop012-eng.cfm"]http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/ref/dict/pop012-eng.cfm[/URL]

A glance at the chart doesn't show these changes.

How crown land leases and hobby farms are counted could change census results quite a bit, especially in BC. Just a guess

[tweety]

What did you think was going to happen with 80 foot airseeders and air tanks the size of a B train? Farms get smaller?