How does the Census of Agriculture benefit operators?
• Operators can use census data to make production, marketing and investment decisions. • Producer groups and marketing agencies use census data to tell Canadians and government how they are doing economically through their non-government organizations. • Companies supplying agricultural products and services use the data to determine where to locate their service centres. • Government policy advisors use the data to help develop programs related to safety nets and human resources for the agriculture sector. • Operators can keep abreast of trends in Canadian agriculture through the analysis of Census of Agriculture data published by the agriculture media. • Agriculture websites can target their information to current trends and needs in the sector based on census data. • Governments and farm organizations use census data to evaluate the impact of natural disasters on agriculture (such as the floods in Manitoba’s Red River area, the Saguenay region of Quebec, or the 1998 ice storm in Ea
