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Commodity
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Significance of Industry
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Annual Value ($)
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Farm woodlots
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1,450,000 acres
587.045 ha
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$19.7 million (Agricultural Census, 1996), plus
$60 million in-kind use of forest products on farms (e.g. fuel
wood, posts, building materials, foods, decoratives, hunting)
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Christmas trees
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30,000 acres
12141 ha
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$8.3 million
(Statistics Canada, Agriculture Division 2001)
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Nuts
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2000 acres
810 ha
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$200,000 (nut & nursery tree sales)
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Maple Products
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1.3 million taps,
2600 farms
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$15 million value, plus tourism and spin-off values
to local economies
(Agricultural Census, 2001)
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Maple orchards
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Greater than 50
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Little tapping yet, demonstration value
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Forest ginseng
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1000 - 2000 acres
404 - 808 ha
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Most acreage not yet mature.
Range in value $250 to $500 / dried pound
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Other forest medicinals
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Farm windbreaks and building shelters.
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8749 windbreaks (#)
67,520 shelterbelts (#)
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- 8 to15% crop yield increase on protected land.
- 10 to15% heating and cooling cost savings.
- Difficult to measure value of soil conserved.
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Timberbelts (sawlogs from fencerows)
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25 acres (new idea)
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Hardwood plantations
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Not documented
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Combines technology in orchard horticulture, forestry
and landscape nursery.
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Intercropping - tree fruit and tree nut orchards
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Area not documented. Only practiced in new non-bearing orchards.
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Traditional orchard practice, combines orchard agriculture
with other agricultural crop production practices.
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