Canada - Farm cash receipts slipping
http://www.albertafarmexpress.ca/issues/ISarticle.asp?aid=1000349032&issue=11262009&pc=FBC
01-Dec-2009 (16 years 6 months 12 days ago)Canadian farmers' cash receipts over the first nine months of 2009 have dropped 4.2 per cent from the year-earlier period to $32.8 billion, Statistics Canada reports.
Farm cash receipts include gross crop and livestock revenues plus program payments. Market receipts from the sale of crops and livestock amounted to $30.3 billion between January and September, down two per cent from the first nine months of 2008. Livestock receipts fell 2.8 per cent to $13.5 billion, while crop receipts declined 1.4 per cent to $16.8 billion.
Farm cash receipts include gross crop and livestock revenues plus program payments. Market receipts from the sale of crops and livestock amounted to $30.3 billion between January and September, down two per cent from the first nine months of 2008. Livestock receipts fell 2.8 per cent to $13.5 billion, while crop receipts declined 1.4 per cent to $16.8 billion.