Editing New Brunswick (section)

===Primary sector===
A large number of residents from New Brunswick are employed in the [[primary sector of industry]]. More than 13,000 New Brunswickers work in agriculture, shipping products worth over $1&nbsp;billion, half of which is from crops, and half of that from potatoes, mostly in the Saint John River valley. [[McCain Foods]] is one of the world's largest manufacturers of frozen potato products. Other products include apples, [[cranberries]], and [[maple syrup]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Crops |date=May 2013 |url=http://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/10/agriculture/content/crops.html |publisher=Government of New Brunswick |access-date=17 November 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171117122134/http://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/10/agriculture/content/crops.html |archive-date=17 November 2017}}</ref> New Brunswick was in 2015 the biggest producer of wild [[blueberries]] in Canada.<ref>[http://www.acadienouvelle.com/actualites/2016/04/20/production-de-bleuets-sauvages-prend-de-lexpansion-nouveau-brunswick/?pgnc=1 acadienouvelle.com: "La production de bleuets sauvages prend de l’expansion au Nouveau Brunswick"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221064347/http://www.acadienouvelle.com/actualites/2016/04/20/production-de-bleuets-sauvages-prend-de-lexpansion-nouveau-brunswick/?pgnc=1 |date=21 December 2016 }}, 21 April 2016</ref> The value of the livestock sector is about a quarter of a billion dollars, nearly half of which is dairy. Other sectors include poultry, fur, and goats, sheep, and pigs.
[[File:PulpAndPaperMill.jpg|thumb|A New Brunswick [[pulp mill]] owned by [[J. D. Irving]]]]
About 85 to 90% of New Brunswick is forested. Historically important, it accounted for more than 80% of exports in the mid-1800s. By the end of the 1800s the industry, and shipbuilding, were declining due to external economic factors. The 1920s saw the development of a pulp and paper industry. In the mid-1960s, forestry practices changed from the controlled harvests of a commodity to the cultivation of the forests.<ref name="cenb">{{cite web |url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/new-brunswick/ |title=New Brunswick |first=Ernest R. |last=Forbes |access-date=29 June 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160622063828/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/new-brunswick/ |archive-date=22 June 2016}}</ref> The industry employs nearly 12,000, generating revenues around $437&nbsp;million.<ref name="hc"/>

Mining was historically unimportant in the province, but has grown since the 1950s.<ref>Cranstone, D. A., & Canada. (2002). ''A history of mining and mineral exploration in Canada and outlook for the future''. https://www.mineralsed.ca/site/assets/files/3452/ahistoryofmining_mineralexplorationincanada-nrcan.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805011305/https://www.mineralsed.ca/site/assets/files/3452/ahistoryofmining_mineralexplorationincanada-nrcan.pdf |date=5 August 2020 }}</ref> The province's GDP from the Mining and Quarrying industry in 2015 was $299.5&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Statistics Canada |title=Table: 36-10-0402-01 Gross domestic product (GDP) at basic prices, by industry, provinces and territories (x 1,000,000) |url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3610040201&pickMembers[0]=2.1&pickMembers[1]=3.26 |access-date=11 September 2019 |date=11 September 2019 |archive-date=22 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200522163016/https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3610040201&pickMembers%5B0%5D=2.1&pickMembers%5B1%5D=3.26 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[List of mines in New Brunswick|Mines in New Brunswick]] produce lead, zinc, copper, and potash.

Forest management in the province is particularly opaque. Donald Bowser, an international expert on political corruption, says he is "shocked to discover that there is less transparency in New Brunswick than in [[Kurdistan]], [[Guatemala]] or [[Sierra Leone]], despite the huge public funds committed to natural resource development."<ref name=":2" />