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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

What Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada spent in fiscal year 2012-13: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

What Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada does

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada supports the growth and stability of Canada's agriculture, agri-food, and agri-based products sector. Its work includes farm income protection and risk-management programs, support for sustainable agricultural practices, and efforts to expand trade and market access for Canadian producers and food processors.

Spending, 2012-13

Net spending, 2012-13

$2.68B

spent by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, less revenues it kept

Share, 2012-13

1.2%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada spend its budget in 2012-13?

By standard object. Revenues it kept are negative and netted against its spending. Transfer payments are broken into their largest named programs.

Spending by standard object, 2012-13

Transfer payments

Personnel

Professional and special services

Utilities, materials and supplies

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Repair and maintenance

Transportation and communications

Other subsidies and payments

Information

Acquisition of land, buildings and works

Rentals

Internal revenues

External revenues

$1.9B

$575M

$123M

$41.1M

$37.4M

$19.3M

$14.6M

$11.1M

$7.8M

$6.3M

$4.9M

-$11.8M

-$47.4M

Total: $2.68B.

Workforce, 2012-13

Full-time equivalents

5,662

the actual FTEs of its programs, as GC InfoBase reports them

Personnel spending

$575M

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

Personnel spending per FTE

$102K

personnel spending divided by full-time equivalents

A full-time equivalent is a measure of employment, not a headcount: two half-time employees are one FTE. Personnel spending includes benefits and pension contributions, so per FTE it is not an average salary.

Transfer payment programs, 2012-13

The grants, contributions and other transfers Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada paid, program by program: $1.9B in all, against $1.9B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Contribution payments for the AgriInsurance programPaymentsContribution$677,986,995
Contribution payments for the AgriStability programPaymentsContribution$354,579,880
Grant payments for the AgriInvest programPaymentsGrant$192,215,825
Grant payments for the Canadian Wheat Board transition costs programPaymentsGrant$169,373,315
Grant payments for the AgriStability programPaymentsGrant$64,045,303
Contributions to promote environmentally responsible agriculturePaymentsContribution$62,764,368
Payments in connection with the Agricultural Marketing Programs ActPaymentsContribution$62,606,580
Programming related to the Agricultural flexibility fundPaymentsContribution$51,701,074
Contributions to accelerate the pace of innovation and facilitate the adoption of new technologiesPaymentsContribution$48,643,531
Contributions to enable competitive enterprises and sectorsPaymentsContribution$36,931,697
Contribution payments for the AgriInvest programPaymentsContribution$28,625,258
Contributions to support the Canadian agricultural adaptation programPaymentsContribution$27,361,000
Contributions to transform Canada's strengths into domestic and global successPaymentsContribution$23,491,159
Contributions under the Agricultural Innovation programPaymentsContribution$21,353,883
Contributions to minimize the occurence and extent of risk incidentsPaymentsContribution$18,937,730
42 programs$1,900,532,062
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Contracts of $10,000 and under

Contracts this small are not published one by one: Treasury Board publishes each organization's totals, by calendar year, for contracts of $10,000 and under (their original value and their amendments) and for acquisition card purchases. They are the value of contracts entered into, not what was paid in a fiscal year, so they are not part of the net expenditure above, and the years are calendar years.

Calendar yearGoodsServicesConstructionAcquisition cardsTotal
2025$9,583,231$6,923,341$909,301$28,365,992$45,781,866
2023$13,991,620$9,523,205$967,434$22,128,284$46,610,543
2022$15,279,085$9,578,414$973,637$21,662,172$47,493,307
2021$15,254,969$8,780,595$1,037,723$15,520,828$40,594,116
2020$13,635,518$8,210,497$890,508$15,819,889$38,556,413
2019$14,218,620$9,950,569$658,197$21,846,720$46,674,107
2018$13,375,163$9,283,250$831,099$21,533,458$45,022,969
2017$16,392,018$10,338,490$485,383$18,794,432$46,010,322

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s share of federal net spending