September 2005

FARM FACTS

Amount of Ontario cattle crossing U.S. border each day as of Aug. 2.................155

Amount of Ontario cattle crossing U.S. border reach day prior to mad cow crisis....4,000

Number of Ottawa-area landowners who face 'significant wetlands' re-designation of their farmland.............60

Projected loss of value per acre after re-designation.......$467

Average projected loss this year of an Ontario farmer if the U.S. border remained closed to live Canadian cattle.......$783

Average profit of an Ontario farmer in the best year (2001).......$9,617

Number of litres of liquid manure that poured into an upstate New York river from a dairy farm lagoon.....14 million

Number of fish killed by the spill.........200,000 to 250,000