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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

What Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada spent in fiscal year 2016-17: 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, 2016-17

Net spending, 2016-17

$2.61B

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

Share, 2016-17

1.1%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada spend its budget in 2016-17?

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, 2016-17

Transfer payments

Personnel

Other subsidies and payments

Professional and special services

Acquisition of land, buildings and works

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Utilities, materials and supplies

Repair and maintenance

Transportation and communications

Information

Rentals

Internal revenues

External revenues

$1.57B

$441M

$363M

$113M

$65.5M

$39.2M

$37.1M

$14.3M

$14.2M

$7.5M

$7.1M

-$18M

-$42.8M

Total: $2.61B.

Spending by program, 2016-17

The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $2.61B in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.

Workforce, 2016-17

Full-time equivalents

4,594

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

Personnel spending

$441M

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

Personnel spending per FTE

$96K

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, 2016-17

The grants, contributions and other transfers Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada paid, program by program: $1.57B in all, against $1.57B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Contribution payments for the AgriInsurance programPaymentsContribution$701,496,004
Contribution payments for the AgriStability programPaymentsContribution$311,527,441
Grant payments for the AgriInvest programPaymentsGrant$152,279,055
Contributions for Cost-Shared Strategic Initiatives programming in Innovation under Growing Forward 2PaymentsContribution$100,523,555
Contributions for Cost-Shared Strategic Initiatives programming in Competitiveness and Market Development under Growing Forward 2PaymentsContribution$91,792,901
Contribution payments for the AgriInnovation program under Growing Forward 2PaymentsContribution$61,656,052
Grant payments for the AgriStability programPaymentsGrant$35,373,415
Contribution payments for the AgriMarketing program under Growing Forward 2PaymentsContribution$34,250,294
Contributions for Cost-Shared Strategic Initiatives programming in Adaptability and Industry Capacity under Growing Forward 2PaymentsContribution$27,163,776
Payments in connection with the Agricultural Marketing Programs ActPaymentsContribution$25,670,879
Contribution payments for the AgriInvest programPaymentsContribution$24,986,173
Contributions for the AgriRisk Initiatives programPaymentsContribution$8,284,065
Contribution payments for the Agricultural Disaster Relief program/AgriRecoveryPaymentsContribution$6,923,281
Contribution payments for the AgriCompetitiveness program under Growing Forward 2PaymentsContribution$3,270,605
Grants to foreign recipients for participation in international organizations supporting agriculturePaymentsGrant$3,079,475
31 programs$1,573,796,728
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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

Other organizations in Agriculture and Agri-Food