Our Economic Contribution
Milk production is a key contributor to the Canadian economy, with billions in sales and jobs nationwide.
Canada has 13,214 dairy farms across the country with one million milking cows. Dairy producers sell an average of 7.66 billion litres of milk annually to dairy manufacturers in Canada. The dairy processing sector is relatively concentrated: three main processors process about 75% of the milk produced in Canada. Overall, about 450 processing plants transform milk into a thousand products, including over 660 types of cheese! Sales of milk and dairy products add $10 billion dollars to the Canadian economy.
