Statistics Canada has announced that the questionnaire for the 2026 Census of Agriculture has been published on the Statistics Canada website.

The 2026 questionnaire will support ongoing trend analysis by maintaining key content from the 2021 Census. It will also include modified questions on emerging trends and reflect users' changing data requirements.

For the 2026 Census of Agriculture, new categories have been added to the commodity questions to identify emerging agricultural products. Questions on agricultural practices have been expanded to measure the breadth of environmental practices and environmental sustainability in the agricultural sector. Questions on the adoption of on-farm technologies and renewable energy production were updated with new or modified categories to better reflect current technologies.

To reduce the response burden, some questions have been removed and will be replaced with administrative data.

Canada's agricultural sector is an important engine of economic growth. High-quality, trusted information is needed to provide insight on critical current and emerging issues such as food security and inflation. This information is further needed to support the sector's economic growth, recovery and sustainability, especially as it relates to international trade, competitiveness and advancing agricultural science innovation, including research on climate change.

On July 16, Statistics Canada will launch an improved homepage to facilitate navigation and data access. The new design will not affect bookmarks or access to The Daily, data tables, web scraping, or other key functionalities.

For more information, visit the page on the upcoming changes to the Statistics Canada website.

Source:  Statistics Canada July 4, 2025 news release