Please click here for updated addresses. Contact our webmaster . Farm incomes trail in Sask. By Barry Wilson Ottawa bureau In Alberta, beef farming is where the numbers and image reside. Grain farming is where the public policy attention rests and subsidy wars rage.
Dairy farming is where the money flows.
Results from an extensive farm financial survey conducted by Statistics Canada last year and published in late December offers a surprising snapshot of Alberta agriculture. It is the largest farm sector in the province, gaining more than 800 operations in the past two years when most farm populations are shrinking. The economic sleeper in the province is the dairy industry. It is true that the number of farmers identifying themselves as dairy producers has fallen 28 percent in Alberta during the past two years. But the 9,570 Quebec dairy farmers remain the lucrative mainstay of the provincial farm economy.