page_title: La Baie
section_title: Agriculture and the dairy industry
hierarchical_section_title: La Baie / Borough / Economics / Primary and secondary sectors / Agriculture and the dairy industry
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Grange près de La Baie, Québec, CanadaEnglish: A barn near La Baie, Quebec, Canada
context_page_description: La Baie is one of three boroughs in the city of Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. It was created during Quebec's municipal reorganization in 2002. From 1976 to 2001, it was known as the Town of La Baie, a municipality composed of the Grande-Baie, Bagotville, and Port-Alfred sectors.
  It is located on the bank of the Ha! Ha! Bay at the mouths of the Ha! Ha! River and the Mars River. La Baie was the first colony built in the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region. It was founded by the Société des Vingt et un who settled the area in 1838. The depth of the banks of the Ha! Ha! Bay's waterways facilitated the rapid development of the region's largest harbour facilities after the railways were built in 1910.
  The borough's main sources of socio-economic development have been the logging and the pulp and paper industries since the nineteenth and twentieth centuries respectively. Aluminum production began in the early 1980s. After the Abitibi-Consolidated paper mill, one of the main employers of the borough, shut down in 2004, Saguenay's elected officials decided to invest in La Baie's tourism industry by building and operating a port of call for cruise ships in 2008.
context_section_description: Despite the harsh terrain around Ha! Ha! Bay, the plateaus that extend toward Laterrière and Chicoutimi and overhang Grande-Baie are fertile enough to produce small quantities of cereals and oleaginous plants. Truck farming is practised in fields and in greenhouses. La Baie also contains a tree nursery and a greenhouse for grass farming. Fodder crop production is important for supporting the borough's dairy industry. Deer and cattle farming are also practised.
  L'écohameau de La Baie was founded in 1990 by the Groupe de recherches écologiques de la Batture (GREB). It includes an organic farm (Vallons de Chambreule) and six single-family ecological homes. For a long time, it was the only certified organic farm in Saguenay. In 2000, it was the first farm in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean to offer Community-supported agriculture (community-supported agriculture) baskets.
  Milk production is still the main agricultural activity. The borough contains twenty-one dairy farms that are members of the Fédération des producteurs de lait du Québec. There are two major milk processing companies in the borough: La Laiterie de La Baie, which employs seventy people and accounts for 25% of the region's dairy market and the Fromagerie Boivin which uses between 12 and 17 million litres of milk a year to manufacture Cheddar cheese. Les bergeries du Fjord make a sheep's milk cheese.
caption: Arable land on the plateau between Chicoutimi and La Baie
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