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 Canadian farmers planting more quinoa, kale, hemp and hops as health trends trickle down to farms

 

As retailers push certain foods, farmers are happy to provide that crop if there is profit to be made

 

 

More Canadian farmers are growing kale, especially in Ontario, which reported 328 acres of the superfood in 2016.Matt Quinn for National Post files

 

 

 

The healthy lifestyle trend is trickling down to Canadian farms, which have a adjusted their operations in the last five years to harvest more crops such as quinoa and kale.

 

According to a report released by Statistics Canada on Thursday, the number of acres devoted to quinoa, a high protein grain-like seed that resembles rice, rose to 11,868 from just 312 between the years 2011 and 2016. The number of farms harvesting the seed also soared, from eight to 118.

 

Most of the quinoa in 2016 was grown in Saskatchewan, which cultivated 9,525 acres. 

 

Rob Armstrong of Northern Quinoa Production Corp., a quinoa processing company based in Saskatoon, said that the increased production comes amid increased awareness about the grain.

 

“Since the early ’90s, quinoa has been grown in the province. Our first year was 1992, by 1995 we had around 20 farmers and today we have hundreds,” Armstrong said in an email.

 

The trendy green superfood kale also saw an increase, to 448 acres from 92, a jump of 389.9 per cent. Almost 75 per cent of Canada’s kale cultivation operated in Ontario, which reported 328 acres in 2016. The province in second place for kale cultivation was Nova Scotia, which grew 20 acres in 2016.

 

Other notable crops that saw increases in acreage were sweet potatoes, garlic, Chinese vegetables and hops.

 

 

Ron Bonnett, president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture noted the increase in hops cultivation, a prominent ingredient in beer production, as a response to the higher demand for craft beer and an interest in microbreweries. From 2011 to 2016 hops cultivation grew to 789 acres from 97.

 

“It’s a combination of what’s happening as a consumer trend and the farmers’ response,” Bonnett said.

 

He said often times retailers may push certain foods and farmers are happy to provide that crop if there is profit to be made.

The Statistics Canada report, which covered a range of less traditional crops referred to as “other crops,” also revealed a sharp increase in the production of industrial hemp.

 

It saw a jump to 45,245 acres from 25,937 in the same five-year period. The recent data shows the province with the most hemp acres, 15,689, was Alberta. Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Quebec, Ontario and B.C. cultivated the remaining 29,556 acres.

 

According to the government of Saskatchewan, industrial hemp must contain no more than 0.3 per cent concentration of the high-inducing ingredient, THC, in order to be considered a non-narcotic cultivation in Canada. Hemp comes from the same cannabis sativa plant species used to grow marijuana and was outlawed by the Narcotics Control Act of 1937. The ban was lifted in 1998 and as of 2015, 1,135 commercial licenses have been issued. 400 of those were in Saskatchewan.

 

Erik Dorff, analyst for Statistics Canada said that these numbers are a reflection of the markets farmers believe could be bigger, not only in Canada, but worldwide. At one point canola was a relatively minor crop, but in 2016 there were 20.6 million acres and 32,000 farms harvesting rapeseed.

 

“It’s not just Canadian consumers, its consumers world wide we see farmers addressing,” Dorff said.

 

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