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Agriculture in Canada

The federal department of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's mandate is to provide "information, research, technology, policies and programs for security of the food system, health of the environment and innovation for growth."

"Agriculture is a business. Agriculture is a way of life. Agriculture produces what we eat — and a lot of products we don’t eat, but use for other things. Agriculture makes the trains roll. Agriculture uses new technology and plain old common sense."

"Art, science, and industry of managing the growth of plants and animals for human use. In a broad sense agriculture includes cultivation of the soil, growing and harvesting crops, breeding and raising of livestock, dairying, and forestry (see Animal Husbandry ; Crop Farming ; Dairy Farming ; Forestry ; Poultry Farming ; Soil Management )."

As early as 1605, the French Acadians built dikes in the maritimes for wheat, flax, vegetables, pasturage and marshland farming. The American Revoulution, 1775-1783, and its attendant food decline resulted in 3100 hectares cleared in Newfoundland. In the early 1800s Irish immigrants began arriving who cultivated the land in Newfoundland. "Peter POND'S 1778 experiment in gardening near Lake Athabasca" Hudson Bay forts, gold rush miners, and missionaries cultivated crops, gardens and raised livestock.