Agricultural Products, Markets and Trade

This site provides links to a variety of existing information on the Internet related to agriculture and agri-food market access and trade policy information.

Summary

Key Sites:

Agri-Food Trade Policy

This site includes the texts of trade agreements, Web sites of international organizations, information on Canada's trade policy, information on priority markets for Canadian agri-food exports, information on relevant subjects such as Canada's Agreement on Internal Trade, investment and trade and the environment.

Dairy Industry

The Canadian Dairy Information Centre is a single window access to dairy market information and analysis. The Web site contains information such as milk volumes, consumption, quotas, production, dairy sales, genetics, imports and exports. Information is provided on a regional and national basis through weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports.

Fish and Seafood

In the Government of Canada, the responsibility for the fish and seafood industry is split between the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) which manages the production end of the business (that is, fish -- whether wild or farmed -- when they are in the water) and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) which provides export market-development support for a wide variety of Canada's food and beverage products, including fish and seafood.

Processed Food and Beverages Industry

Primary information site on processed food and beverage industry including market and industry information, sub-sector profiles, statistics, trend analysis.

Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals

Industry and market information and links; strategy-development initiatives and discussion papers; links to research, policy and regulatory initiatives.

Horticulture

Detailed situation and trend analysis are available for the following horticulture crop sectors: potatoes, vegetables, fruits, floriculture, nursery & sod, Christmas trees and honey.

Poultry Marketplace

This site contains information related to weekly and annual poultry and egg market information, historical trends, trade data and import permits, fact sheets and publications, press clippings, federally registered plants and stations, industry associations, links to numerous poultry and egg Web sites, as well as a search utility.

Red Meat Market Information

Provides livestock and red meat prices, market volumes, imports and exports on a regional and national basis through daily, weekly, monthly and annual reports.

Special Crops

For the purposes of this report, "special crops" are a diverse group including lentils, canary seed, buckwheat, sunflower seed, forages and ginseng. It is a catch all category for those crops not counted in horticultural crops and the major grains and oilseeds.

Manitoba Contact(s):
See National Contact.

 

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National Contact(s):
General enquiries:
Public Information Request Service
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Sir John Carling Building
930 Carling Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario  K1A 0C7
Telephone: 613-759-1000
Fax: 613-759-7977
Toll-free (information): 1-866-367-8506
TTY (hearing impaired): 613-759-7470
E-mail: info@agr.gc.ca or fill out the form at http://www.agr.gc.ca/index_e.php?s1=help-aide&s2=contact
Web site: http://www.agr.gc.ca/index_e.phtml