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Acreages, yields and values of principal crops grown in Canada, 1927 to 1936

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Acreages, yields and values of principal crops grown in Canada, 1927 to 1936
	Area	Yield per acre	Total yield	Average price	Total value
	acres	bushel	acres	$ per bushel	$
Wheat
1927	22,460	21.4	479,665	1.00	477,791
1928	24,119	23.5	566,726	0.80	451,235
1929	25,255	12.1	304,520	1.05	319,715
1930	24,898	16.9	420,672	0.49	204,693
1931	26,355	12.2	321,325	0.38	123,550
1932	27,182	16.3	443,061	0.35	154,760
1933	25,991	10.8	281,892	0.49	136,958
1934	23,985	11.5	275,849	0.61	169,631
1935	24,116	11.7¹	281,935¹	0.61¹	173,065¹
1936	25,289	9.1	229,218	0.89	204,835
Oats
1927	13,240	33.2	439,713	0.51	225,879
1928	13,137	34.4	452,153	0.47	210,956
1929	12,479	22.7	282,838	0.59	168,017
1930	13,259	31.9	423,148	0.24	102,919
1931	12,838	25.6	328,278	0.24	77,970
1932	13,148	29.8	391,561	0.19	75,988
1933	13,529	22.7	307,478	0.26	79,818
1934	13 731	23.4	321,120	0.32	103,124
1935	14,096	28.0	394,348	0.24	93,409¹
1936	13,118	20.7	271,778	0.40	110,070
Barley
1927	3,506	27.7	96,938	0.66	64,193
1928	4,881	27.9	136,391	0.56	76,112
1929	5,926	17.3	102,313	0.59	60,505
1930	5,559	24.3	135,160	0.20	27,254
1931	3,791	17.8	67,383	0.26	17,465
1932	3,758	21.5	80,773	0.23	18,855
1933	3,658	17.3	63,359	0.30	18,954
1934	3,613	17.6	63,742	0.47	29,975
1935	3,887	21.6	83,975	0.29¹	24,465¹
1936	4,433	16.2	71,922	0.63	45,601
Rye
1927	743	20.9	15,571	0.82	12,746
1928	840	17.4	14,618	0.79	11,491
1929	992	13.3	13,161	0.84	11,095
1930	1,448	15.2	22,019	0.20	4,402
1931	799	6.7	5,322	0.28	1,476
1932	774	10.9	8,470	0.27	2,284
1933	583	7.2	4,177	0.38	1,603
1934	685	6.9	4,706	0.49	2,325
1935	720	13.4	9,606	0.27¹	2,634¹
1936	635	6.7	4,281	0.60	2,590
Note: Comparative figures for the years 1908 to 1926 are given in the Canada Year Book, 1929, pp. 230 to 232. The total value of wheat for 1912 should be $139,090,000 instead of the $19,090,000 shown on p. 230 of the Canada Year Book, where the error was caused by the dropping out of a figure.
1. Revised since the publication of the Canada Year Book, 1936.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canada Year Book, 1937.