Here are a few fun facts that quantify a few realities of the farming sector.

$447,000: The average price of a single-family homes sold in Quebec in the first half of 2024. That price is  up 7.3 per cent higher than the $416,500 recorded at the end of 2023 and 51.5 per cent higher than the average price recorded of $295,000 recorded in 2020.

30,763: The number of single-family homes sold in Quebec in the first half of 2024.

173: The number of millimetres of rain that fell in Ste. Anne de Bellevue on Friday, Aug. 9, the recording was greater than in any other area of Quebec as the province was hit with the remnants of Hurricane Debby.

A total of 157 mm were recorded at Trudeau Airport in Dorval, marking the highest one-day rainfall ever recorded at this site. The previous one rainfall record is 87.6 mm, which was set in 1880.

221: The number of millimetres of rain that fell in Lanoraie, a town of about 4,750 residents in the Lanaudière region, on Friday, Aug. 9, as the remnants of Hurricane Debby swept across parts of Quebec. It is considered a heavy precipitation day when 10 mm of rain falls in a given location.