Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
What Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada spent in fiscal year 2019-20: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Reports through Agriculture and Agri-Food; the overview shows it in that ministry.
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, 2019-20
Net spending, 2019-20
$2.57B
spent by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, less revenues it kept
Share, 2019-20
0.8%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada spend its budget in 2019-20?
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, 2019-20
Transfer payments
Personnel
Professional and special services
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Utilities, materials and supplies
Acquisition of land, buildings and works
Transportation and communications
Repair and maintenance
Information
Other subsidies and payments
Rentals
Internal revenues
External revenues
$1.86B
$507M
$108M
$42.2M
$34.4M
$16.5M
$13.1M
$12.7M
$10.2M
$9.6M
$8.5M
-$20M
-$31.3M
Total: $2.57B.
Spending by program, 2019-20
The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $2.57B in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.
$670M
$428M
$366M
$207M
$168M
$112M
$78.6M
$69.1M
$66.8M
$58.8M
$43.1M
$42.7M
$35.1M
$32.8M
$26.6M
$25.4M
$22M
$21.5M
$16.2M
$13.3M
$12.2M
$12M
$10.2M
$10.1M
$6.4M
$6.3M
$5.6M
$3.9M
$3.3M
$2.9M
$1.7M
$1.7M
$251K
$226K
-$12.6M
Workforce, 2019-20
Full-time equivalents
4,831
the actual FTEs of its programs, as GC InfoBase reports them
Personnel spending
$507M
salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)
Personnel spending per FTE
$105K
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, 2019-20
The grants, contributions and other transfers Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada paid, program by program: $1.86B in all, against $1.86B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Contribution payments for the AgriInsurance program (Farm Income Protection Act)Payments | Contribution | $666,672,139 |
| Grant payments for the Dairy Direct Payment Program (Farm Income Protection Act)Payments | Grant | $338,634,953 |
| Contributions in support of Provincial/Territorial delivered cost-shared programs under the Canadian Agricultural PartnershipPayments | Contribution | $206,527,289 |
| Contribution payments for the AgriStability program (Farm Income Protection Act)Payments | Contribution | $161,471,302 |
| Grant payments for the AgriInvest program (Farm Income Protection Act)Payments | Grant | $139,295,221 |
| Contributions to support Investments in the Dairy SectorPayments | Contribution | $83,229,312 |
| Payments in connection with the Agricultural Marketing Programs Act (S.C., 1997, c. C-34)Payments | Contribution | $62,650,051 |
| Contributions in support of the AgriScience program under the Canadian Agricultural PartnershipPayments | Contribution | $41,706,960 |
| Grant payments for the AgriStability program (Farm Income Protection Act)Payments | Grant | $33,361,215 |
| Contributions to support Investments in Food Policy InitiativesPayments | Contribution | $25,869,541 |
| Contributions in support of the AgriInnovate program under the Canadian Agricultural PartnershipPayments | Contribution | $22,966,388 |
| Contributions in support of the AgriMarketing program under the Canadian Agricultural PartnershipPayments | Contribution | $22,924,441 |
| Contribution payments for the AgriInvest program (Farm Income Protection Act)Payments | Contribution | $18,386,441 |
| Contributions in support of the AgriAssurance program under the Canadian Agricultural PartnershipPayments | Contribution | $11,062,530 |
| Contribution payments for the Agricultural Disaster Relief program/AgriRecovery (Farm Income Protection Act)Payments | Contribution | $9,418,344 |
| 32 programs | $1,857,133,133 | |
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 year | Goods | Services | Construction | Acquisition cards | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2020, Volume II: Ministerial expenditures by standard object (Table 3)
- Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II: Transfer payments (multi-year open data)
- GC InfoBase – Federal Programs – Actual and Planned Spending (programs_spending.csv)
- GC InfoBase – Federal Programs – Actual and Planned Employees (programs_ftes.csv)
- Proactive Publication - Contracts: Aggregated Total - Contracts $10K and under
Department figures are net expenditure (Public Accounts, Volume II), which doesn’t add up to the accrual expenses of the overview’s headline. See the methodology.
