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- Estimated amount farmers spent schmoozing politicians at a
Parliament Hill dinner in February: $20,000
- Percentage of rural communities in Ontario with a development plan
in place, according to a University of Guelph: 38
- Amount of money generated in sales by Lanark and Renfrew farms in
1995: $97.7 million
- Number of jobs generated by farms and agri-business in Lanark and
Renfrew: 3,000
- Total number of manufacturing jobs in the counties: 11,000
- Number of jobs generated by agriculture in Ottawa-Carleton: 10,000
- Number of jobs in the high tech industry in Ottawa before recent
layoffs: 47,000
- Amount agriculture generates in sales in Ottawa-Carleton: $402
million
- Number of years out of nine when a crop catastrophe will overtake a
major grain producing region of the world, according to economist Collin
Reesor: 2
- Rank of Ontario among provinces for support of agriculture: 5
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