Here are a few fun facts that quantify a few realities of the farming sector.
$32.4 billion: The amount of U.S. food and agricultural exports that were shipped to Canada in 2024, making this country the top importer of agricultural products from the United States.
Meanwhile, U.S. food and ag exports to Mexico continue to rise, hitting $31.4 billion last year. American food and agricultural products sold to Mexico have increased 65 per cent in the last four years
91%: The percentage of all U.S. canola imports that came from Canada in 2024. This share represented a whopping 3,343 million metric tonnes of canola oil that made its way from Canada to the U.S., with more than half going to industrial use.
$69.9 billion: That is the amount of Canada’s overall exports in the month of March. That figure is down from the $70.04 billion recorded in February, and marked the second month in a row that exports fell.
But when March exports this year are compared with the same month last year, the figure represents a 10.2-per-cent increase.
4th: Quebec was the fourth most dependent province on the U.S. in 2021, with 6.1 per cent of jobs attributed to direct exports to the Canada’s southern neighbour and an additional 4.9 per cent of jobs attributed to indirect exports, totalling 11 per cent employment linked to trade with the U.S.
The provinces with the most jobs dependent on trade with the U.S. were Alberta, followed by Ontario and New Brunswick.