Official registries and open data list 96 active companies in agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting in Prince Edward Island, which puts Prince Edward Island in 9th place in Canada for this sector (<1 % of the national total). 8 of them (8 %) have at least one known director, and 1 (1 %) published an official change in the last 18 months: incorporation, amendment, change of director or address.
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Get 5 profiles from this segmentFarm cash receipts crossed the $100 billion mark for the first time in 2025, but operating expenses are climbing faster and realized net income is stalled around $8 billion. The primary sector (farms, logging, fishing) counts 236,799 establishments, almost all without employees, heavily concentrated in the Prairies, Ontario and Quebec, and since 2024 it has lived to the rhythm of trade disputes (Chinese canola, US softwood lumber) and generational renewal.
NAICS 11 brings together crop production, livestock, aquaculture, logging, fishing and support services (custom work, spraying, silviculture). Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) puts primary agriculture GDP at $31.7 billion and its employment at 223,000 people in 2024, plus 76,400 jobs at input and service suppliers. Natural Resources Canada values the forest sector (forest activities and manufacturing) at $30.7 billion of nominal GDP and 194,040 direct jobs in 2024, including 54,565 in forest activities. Fisheries and Oceans Canada counts 42,902 commercial fishers and $3.7 billion of landings in 2023, 85% of them on the Atlantic coast.
The base is atomized and family-run. ISED counts 236,799 establishments in 2025 but only 48,102 employers: 68.8% have 1 to 4 employees and just 14 exceed 500 employees. Quebec (12,751 employers), Ontario (8,579), Alberta (5,987), British Columbia (5,686) and Saskatchewan (5,403) lead. The 2021 Census of Agriculture counts 189,874 farms (-1.9% in five years) on 62.2 million hectares, and AAFC notes that the largest 10% of farms capture more than two-thirds of receipts.
In 2025, farm cash receipts reached $102.2 billion: $52.1 billion from crops (+0.6%), $45.3 billion from livestock (+13.3%) and $4.8 billion of program payments (-18.4%). Alberta ($24.5 B), Ontario ($24.1 B), Saskatchewan ($21.1 B), Quebec ($13.5 B) and Manitoba ($10.3 B) account for most of it. Cattle ($20.6 B, +22.5%) and hogs ($7.2 B, +13.9%) carried the year, while canola fell 6.4%.
Trade sets the tone. In 2024, Canada exported $100.3 billion of agri-food and seafood products, ranking ninth worldwide, with 61.9% going to the United States and China in second place. In March 2025, Beijing imposed surtaxes on canola oil and meal, then in August provisional anti-dumping duties on canola seed, which cut canola exports by 12.5% and pushed domestic crushing to a record. The agreement announced by Prime Minister Carney in Beijing on January 16, 2026 provides for the seed duty to fall to 15% and for duties on meal, peas, lobster and crab to be lifted from March 1, 2026, in exchange for a quota of 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles.
On the forest side, US countervailing and anti-dumping duties on softwood lumber climbed to about 35% in 2025, to which a 10% Section 232 tariff was added in October 2025, for a border bill of roughly 45% according to the Conseil de l'industrie forestière du Québec. Sawmills are cutting shifts or closing, and Ottawa announced relief measures in 2025 along with programs for market diversification, wood construction and Indigenous forestry. NRCan notes that forest employment fell for a third year in 2024, mostly in wood product manufacturing (-3.3%).
On the ground, margins are tightening: operating expenses ($83.0 B) are growing faster than receipts, crop insurance payments fell 26.9% after record yields in 2025, and AgriStability paid out $905 million (+50.6%). The North American cattle herd is at its lowest in decades, which supports prices. Generational renewal (average age of 56 in 2021, with the 2026 Census of Agriculture under way) and temporary foreign labour remain the structural constraints, while precision agriculture, greenhouses and oilseed crushing attract investment.
Jurisdiction is shared. The federal government (AAFC, CFIA, Canadian Grain Commission, Fisheries and Oceans, NRCan) oversees inspection, grains, fishing licences and trade; the provinces manage farmland, the day-to-day running of supply management, public forests (stumpage, supply guarantees) and aquaculture. The Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (2023-2028) funds the business risk management programs (AgriStability, AgriInvest, AgriInsurance) with federal and provincial shares.
Supply management (dairy, poultry, eggs) structures a little over one-third of livestock receipts, or $15.7 billion in 2025: Dairy Farmers of Canada, Chicken Farmers of Canada and the provincial marketing boards set quotas and prices. The major associations are the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, the Union des producteurs agricoles in Quebec (mandatory membership), Grain Growers of Canada, the Canadian Cattle Association, the Canola Council of Canada, the Forest Products Association of Canada and the Fisheries Council of Canada. Farm Credit Canada and La Financière agricole du Québec are the reference lenders and insurers.
The major buyers are processors and cooperatives: Sollio (formerly La Coop fédérée), Richardson, Viterra (merged with Bunge), Cargill, Nutrien for inputs, Olymel, Cargill and JBS in meat, Agropur and Saputo in dairy, Cavendish and McCain in potatoes, and, in forestry, Domtar (Resolute), West Fraser, Canfor, Kruger and Interfor. Fisheries revolve around Clearwater, Cooke, Ocean Choice and Indigenous coastal fleets.
Who buys what: grain farms buy seed, fertilizer, crop protection, machinery and financing, plus precision services (drones, sensors, mapping); livestock operations buy feed, genetics, veterinary care, barn equipment and labour; greenhouses and market gardens buy energy, automation, packaging and temporary foreign workers; logging contractors buy heavy machinery, fuel, insurance and trucking; fishers buy vessels, gear, refrigeration and logistics. All of them consume accounting, succession tax planning, land brokerage and insurance.
Cycles and signals to watch: AAFC's quarterly receipts and principal field crop outlooks announce the following year's investment capacity; tariff decisions (China, United States) and softwood lumber negotiations shift volumes within weeks; cutting permits, dairy quota auctions and fishing licence allocations identify operators that are expanding; provincial farm succession programs flag business transfers, the moment when suppliers and advisors are put back into competition.
How ciblr helps: filter agricultural and forestry employers with 5 to 99 employees by province and sub-sector (30.5% of employers, the operations large enough to outsource), spot recent incorporations of custom work companies, greenhouses and silviculture firms, cross-reference with public contracts (reforestation, wildfire fighting, inspection) and track seasonal job postings as a growth signal.
Of these 96 companies, 8 are federally incorporated, 2 are known through the provincial registry, 86 only through open data (licences, public contracts, grants, registered employers). 2 of them were founded in 2025 and 2026, that is 2 % of the active base; 1 incorporations in 2025.
20 received a federal grant or contribution (36 agreements).
Headcount is known for 2 companies (2 %): 1 declared jobs in total, and the median company has 1-4 employees.
0 companies (0 %) publish a general phone or email, 2 hold an official licence or permit.
96 companies in agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting are active in Prince Edward Island according to official registries and open data, that is <1 % of the 39,755 companies in the sector across Canada.
8 of these companies (8 %) have at least one director on the federal registry (the only registry that publishes directors), which lets you approach them through the right person.
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Every company counted here is active in an official registry (Corporations Canada, Registraire des entreprises du Québec, OrgBook BC) or named by an official open source (licence, public contract, grant, registered employer). The sector is a NAICS code, size comes from the declared headcount when a source provides it and otherwise from an estimate based on the registry (board size, age, status, statute), and "recent signal" means a published move (incorporation, amendment, change of director, address, contract, grant, hiring) in the last 18 months. Figures are recomputed every week from the ciblr database. No data is purchased or invented.
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