Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
What Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada spent in fiscal year 2023-24: 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, 2023-24
Net spending, 2023-24
$4.16B
spent by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, less revenues it kept
Share, 2023-24
0.9%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada spend its budget in 2023-24?
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, 2023-24
Transfer payments
Personnel
Professional and special services
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Utilities, materials and supplies
Acquisition of land, buildings and works
Other subsidies and payments
Repair and maintenance
Rentals
Information
Transportation and communications
External revenues
Internal revenues
$3.28B
$625M
$134M
$44.8M
$37.9M
$23.4M
$20M
$15.9M
$12.4M
$11M
$10M
-$23.9M
-$25.2M
Total: $4.16B.
Spending by program, 2023-24
The same net spending by program, as GC InfoBase reports program actuals: $4.16B in all. Select a program for its history, plans and results.
$1.21B
$499M
$477M
$434M
$210M
$199M
$181M
$149M
$127M
$120M
$77.4M
$70.8M
$57.8M
$56.1M
$37.5M
$34.6M
$32.6M
$29.5M
$24.3M
$23.5M
$21M
$16.5M
$16M
$13.4M
$11.5M
$8M
$6.4M
$5.3M
$3.9M
$3.2M
$2.9M
$2.2M
$1.4M
$1.3M
$136K
-$4M
Workforce, 2023-24
Full-time equivalents
5,073
the actual FTEs of its programs, as GC InfoBase reports them
Personnel spending
$625M
salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)
Personnel spending per FTE
$123K
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, 2023-24
The grants, contributions and other transfers Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada paid, program by program: $3.28B in all, against $3.28B 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 | $1,210,265,388 |
| Contribution payments for the AgriStability program (Farm Income Protection Act)Payments | Contribution | $394,487,135 |
| Grant payments for the Dairy Direct Payment Program (Farm Income Protection Act)Payments | Grant | $294,073,718 |
| Contributions in support of Provincial/Territorial delivered cost-shared programs under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural PartnershipPayments | Contribution | $219,736,272 |
| Contribution payments for the Agricultural Disaster Relief program/AgriRecovery (Farm Income Protection Act)Payments | Contribution | $179,032,367 |
| Grant payments for the AgriInvest program (Farm Income Protection Act)Payments | Grant | $162,218,916 |
| Payments in connection with the Agricultural Marketing Programs Act (S.C., 1997, c. C-34)Payments | Contribution | $143,080,375 |
| Contributions to support the On-Farm Climate Action Stream of the Agricultural Climate SolutionsPayments | Contribution | $106,474,448 |
| Contribution payments in support of the Poultry and Egg On-Farm Investment Program under Supply Management InitiativesPayments | Contribution | $105,015,664 |
| Grant payments for the AgriStability program (Farm Income Protection Act)Payments | Grant | $89,455,778 |
| Grants to support the Canadian wine industryPayments | Grant | $78,550,493 |
| Contributions in support of the Agricultural Clean Technology programPayments | Contribution | $75,396,537 |
| Contribution payments in support of the Supply Management Processing Investment Fund under Supply Management InitiativesPayments | Contribution | $62,575,284 |
| Contribution payments for the AgriInvest program (Farm Income Protection Act)Payments | Contribution | $25,515,325 |
| Contributions in support of the AgriMarketing program under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural PartnershipPayments | Contribution | $19,498,637 |
| 37 programs | $3,277,275,249 | |
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 2024, 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.
