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es — 1940.

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Canadian agriculture has basis of temperate agriculture jbeen, and is, going through a today have been improved con- \very significant transition. It is siderably over the centuries but a.transition from the self - suffi they ~are still essentially the cient, general farm enterprise same commodities as they were of an earlier generation to the a thousand and morefyears «go. specialized, mechanized, highly The agriculture of every | productive agriculture. which country is dictated by its soil, has emerged with particular ra- geography. and climate. These pidity since the last war. factors place considerable limi- Evidence of this can be seen tation on the size of the Canadian ion all sides. The numbers of Ca- farming enterprise. Canada's nadian farms and farm workers {otal land area of 2.3 billion have decreased substantially, acres, only about 175 milion ac- reflecting the movement of peo- res. around 7 per cent, is devo- ple from the country to the city. ted to farming. The 480,000 farms recorded in In ‘this relatively small area. |}the 1961 census is a quarter of jn relation to total land size, Ca- !a million Jess than in 1941. nadian farmers produce .the full | During this same period the range of temperate elimate _average size of Canadian farms farm products. There are favo-~

> has increased by about 50 per red areas in which large Quan-—

jeent as many smaller farms tities of such crops as tobacco, have been replaced by larger grain corn, soyabeans and soft farm units. And, while the num- fruits can be produced. And bers of farms and farm workers there are many _ specialized

| have ‘declined, farm output has | areas where such northern crops

increased by about 50 per cent as apples, sugar beets, potatoes and other vegetables are gown. A_large amount of capital.in These may be expected to ex- the form. of machinery, better pand as plant’ breeders develop livestock, better plant varieties varieties which widen' the area and chemicals, has been inves: of their adaptation and as the ted in agriculture with a substan- | | pressure of population increase tial gain in productivity. In the | |widens the demand for them. 1930's it was estimated that one | farm worker produced enough HARD CORE food to meet the requirements. The hard core of Canada’s of 11 people. At present, it is es- plant production, however, has timated that one farm worker been and will continue to be, produces enough food for the cereal grains and forages. Live- needs of about 32 people. stock enterprises will ‘continue This change is reflected in all to be based on the animals — branches of agriculture. For -ex- their, products which can

—fample; the number of milk cows produced from the seed s

in Canada in the 1961 census crovs of our various regions was 10 per cent less than the av- Climate has dictated that the erage of the 1930's.“Yet dairy agronomy of the western |plains farmers are now producing is devoted primarily to me around 18 billion pounds of milk and range grasslands. FE ly, compared to 13 billion pounds climate has dictated that in the

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‘structure of agriculture

siness, have led to the substan- tial increase in efficiency’ and: productivity which have been evident in recent years, and which will likely continue.

But, while this change in the has been taking place, there has been very little change in the na- ture of Canadian agriculture, in the sense of the foods it produ- ces.

Indeed, there has been. very little change in that respect over the centuries. The basic foods

which are present in every bu- |

coastal area of British Columbia and in Eastern Canada agricul- ture has been developed to a very large extent on a grass economy. This. in turn. has

ing. which represents 0 per cent of the farm ¢ash income in Que-

the prairies.

will continue to be based on the products dictated by geography and climate, the question of what this implies for the future arises.

There will likely be a continu- ing efficiency in the use of land jresources. While this will be re- flected to some extent. in in- lcreased production of other crops, its main‘impact will pre bably be in greater production of ' the forage crops which are indi- | genous to such a wide area“par- ticularly of eastern agriculture.

Specialists in the Canada De- partment of Agriculture estim- ate that in general, and apoly- ing to thé broad spectrum of conr ditions of soil and climate --in Eastern Canada, the present an- nual, production of forage crops is no more than half of what it could be under the best possible

, through artificial

the basic +not-changing. The cereals, meat”

are being processed into an in- creasing variety of forms, but foods themselves are

management. This--applies—not-only to the production. of grasses and legu- més for pasturé and hay. It ap- plies, also, to improvement in methods of preservation of for-

animals. animal products, fruits and vegetables which for m the

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age to increase the total diges- tible nutrients. Indeed, one of the great problems of eastern agriculture is the preservation of forage.

CORN SIGNIFICANT

It applies, also, to silage corn, the acreage of which is extend- ing steadily in Ontario and Que- bec. The acreage of corn in On- tario, which is over a milli on acres im 1964 and #@ per cesi of which is for silage, has doub- | led -in the past three years. It | is estimated that. this can be doubled again in the areas of Ontario which are suitable to corn. Corn is alse becoming a

ignificant crop im south - wesi-

bec. The significance .of this is that corn, while more expensive to produce than hay, will yield 6,000- Ib, of-total__-di- gestible nutrients per acre under optimum conditions as compared to about 4,000 Ib. for hay.

ASs*-an illustration of what is possible. and, indeed, probable, there is little doubt that corn in Ontario and Quebec is the crop that will allow farmers ‘o intensify their production of cat- tle to the point where they will be able to carry at least one animal per acre all the year round. With corn silage avail- able, a farmer can stock ais farm to the point where he can carry enough cattle to _ utilize his pasture fully during J-u ne

and. July and supplement it—+ith- corn, where necessary, during the rest of the season.

if, as is expected, the efficien- cy of pekans continues to improve; particularly in Eastern eoncaal this is reflec- ted in a greater forage crop

production which must be utiliz- ed through cattle: how can this greater production ‘be accomm- odated in a manner which will maintain the farming industry

enterprise. heen based historically on dairy- a: 3 level which is essential ‘to

its evolving structure?

from their Own bec and between 2 and 3 per’ BLENDING BEEF production and provided most of cent in other provinces_except-___There are, of —course..already

some fairly distinct trends in

the family, are gradually disap- Now, accepting that the effie-- evidence. Probably the most _im- pearing...Today:,..the farmer-has- Tienee™ “or Canadian “farming will portant of these is the erm

earlier. a distinctly dairy. econ- omy. This, to the present, has taken more the form of breeding dairy cows to beef bulls than an inérease in eastern herds of the beef breeds. Last year, in Onta- rio, 512,000 cows were bred insemination services. Of these. 176.000, or U per cent, were bred to beef bulls.

The number of both bréeding

|eattle of the beef breeds in On-

tario and the numbers of west- ern feeders brought to Ontario have been staying fairly con- |Stant from year to year. This ‘ean. mean only that we are pro- ducing more feeder steers from

dairy cows and this, obviously, |

is providing one means of utili- zing the increas in g forage re- sources.

To some extent. too, there will probably be an increasing con- centration of cow and calf herds of the beef breeds in Northern Ontario and Quebec, and some areas of the Atlantic provinces,

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