The province of Newfoundland and Labrador is home to over 400 different farms.
Farm Cash Receipts were $129.9 million in 2020, down 8.6 per cent from 2019.
The largest crop commodity is Greenhouse and Nursery, accounting for 6.4 per cent of total Farm Cash Receipts.
Value of vegetable production rose 6.5 per cent to $7.0 million; the top two vegetable crops in 2020 were turnips and potatoes.
The top five crops in 2020 accounted for 81 per cent of all vegetable sales; they are as follows: potato, turnip, carrot, cabbage and beet.
Farm Cash Receipts for fruit production rose 32.8 per cent in 2020 to $1.2 million; with strawberries being the highest valued crop at $0.6 million.
In terms of berries, strawberries are the largest in terms of value, cranberries are largest by volume produced and blueberries are the largest by area of production.
The province has ten commercial apiculture (beekeeping) operations producing a variety of honey and beeswax products plus providing pollination services for crops.
The largest commodities in Newfoundland and Labrador agriculture are Dairy, Chicken, Eggs, Greenhouse and Nursery, and Vegetables.
There were 2,400 sheep in the province with 1,800 lambs born in 2020.
The value of eggs in 2020 rose 0.4 percent to $20.7 million. Egg production is trending upwards with 2019 and 2020 having the highest production levels.
There were 11,400 cattle (dairy and beef) in this province in 2020.
The volume of milk produced in Newfoundland and Labrador was 48.7 million litres in 2020.
The value of milk production in 2020 was $46.4 million (combined value of industrial and fluid milk sales).
