Rabbit industry at a glance in Canada

The following rabbit supply sheet provides market information statistics of inventory and number of farms (Canada and United States), slaughter, consumption, prices, and trade.

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Inventory and number of farms
Graph as described in the table below

Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Agriculture
Calculations done by AAFC-AID , Market Information Section

Inventory of rabbits and number of farms by region in Canada

Number of farms
  1996 2001 2006 2011 2016 2021
Atlantic provinces 310 83 116 136 112 59
Quebec 889 327 518 528 539 247
Ontario 1,952 730 881 1,021 950 471
Manitoba 432 99 152 150 140 96
Saskatchewan 652 119 237 189 235 121
Alberta 1,249 237 502 445 470 284
British Columbia 910 264 341 323 392 208
Canada 6,394 1,859 2,747 2,792 2,838 1,486
Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Agriculture
Number of head
  1996 2001 2006 2011 2016 2021
Atlantic provinces 3,659 2,110 1,905 1,324 1,889 N/A
Quebec 105,649 96,213 102,350 70,853 61,211 72,426
Ontario 120,801 117,925 75,680 93,574 95,426 76,222
Manitoba 8,620 11,902 9,891 3,985 2,050 N/A
Saskatchewan 7,057 4,189 1,983 1,342 1,655 N/A
Alberta 18,982 5,666 5,753 8,129 4,917 2,330
British Columbia 20,598 17,757 8,613 5,728 5,341 1,778
Canada 285,366 255,762 206,175 184,935 172,489 154,873
Source: Statistics Canada, Census of Agriculture
Graph: Value of rabbit inventories and number of farms in the United States as shown in the table below

USDA, Census of Agriculture
Calculations done by AAFC-AID , Market Information Section

Inventory and number of farms in the United States
  1997 2002 2007 2012 2017
Number of head 582,111 405,241 616,129 400,049 280,336
Number of farms 18,104 10,073 27,137 13,420 8,864
Source: USDA, Census of Agriculture
Slaughter
Graph as described in the table below

Source: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Calculations done by AAFC-AID , Market Information Section

Canada's federally and provincially inspected slaughter
  2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 % change
2019 to 2020		 % change
2020 to 2021
Number of head 414,839 642,827 582,244 592,502 670,867 621,561 605,379 523,046 530,924 445,850 474,566 -16.0 6.4
Source: AAFC/Market Information Section
Consumption
 
Graph as described in the table below

Source: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Calculations done by AAFC-AID , Market Information Section

Consumption per capita in Canada
  2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 % change
2019 to 2020		 % change
2020 to 2021
Per capita consumption (grams) 23.6 23.5 24.8 25.0 22.2 22.6 20.9 14.7 18.4 12.2 11.6 -33.7 -4.9
Source: AAFC/Red Meat Section Estimate
Prices
Quebec prices by category
  2019 2020 2021 % change
2020 to 2021
Over 2.36 kilogram 4.10 4.08 4.14 1.5
Over 1.25 kilogram (carcass weight) 7.59 7.55 7.67 1.6
Older rabbits 2.98 2.98 2.98 0.0
Source: Syndicat des producteurs de lapins du Québec
Imports and exports
Canadian imports/exports of rabbit or hare meat and edible offal
(HS Code: 0208.10.00)
  2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Exports - value (C$) 73,428 595,237 531,321 411,953 622,931
Exports - quantity (kg) 6,360 151,610 131,444 145,759 234,564
Imports - value (C$) 70,561 210,483 812,606 288,955 451,061
Imports - quantity (kg) 13,755 41,030 158,402 50,361 86,003
Source: Statistics Canada
 

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