Editing Family farm (section)

===Canada===

In Canada, the number of "family farms" cannot be inferred closely, because of the nature of census data, which do not distinguish family and non-family farm partnerships. In 2011, of Canada's 205,730 farms, 55 percent were sole proprietorships, 25 percent were partnerships, 17 percent were family corporations, 2 percent were non-family corporations and <1 percent were other categories.<ref>Statistics Canada. 2011 Census of Agriculture.</ref> Because some but not all partnerships involve family members, these data suggest that family farms account for between about 73 and 97 percent of Canadian farms. The family farm percentage is likely to be near the high end of this range, for two reasons. The partners in a [Canadian] farm partnership are typically spouses, often forming the farm partnership for tax reasons.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mnp.ca/en/media-centre/library/2010/10/1/family-farm-partnerships|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150416200727/http://www.mnp.ca/en/media-centre/library/2010/10/1/family-farm-partnerships|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 16, 2015|title=Family farm partnerships}}</ref> Also, as in the US,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.extension.umn.edu/agriculture/business/farm-transfer-estate-planning/docs/farm-business-transfer-strategies-2014.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-04-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141002185139/http://www.extension.umn.edu/agriculture/business/farm-transfer-estate-planning/docs/farm-business-transfer-strategies-2014.pdf |archive-date=2014-10-02 }}</ref> family farm succession planning can use a partnership as a means of apportioning family farm tenure among family members when a sole proprietor is ready to transfer some or all of ownership and operation of a farm to offspring. Conversion of a sole proprietorship family farm to a family corporation may also be influenced by legal and financial, e.g. tax, considerations. The Canadian Encyclopedia estimates that more than 90 percent of Canadian farms are family operations.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Canadian Encyclopedia |title=Farm law |url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/farm-law/ }}</ref>  In 2006, of Canadian farms with more than one million dollars in annual gross farm receipts, about 63 percent were family corporations and 13 percent were non-family corporations.<ref>{{cite web |author=Statistics Canada |title=The financial picture of farms in Canada |url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/ca-ra2006/articles/finpicture-portrait-eng.htm }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |first1=Ayal |last1=Kimhi |first2=Ray |last2=Bollman |title=Family farm dynamics in Canada and Israel: the case of farm exits |journal=Agricultural Economics |volume=21 |issue=1 |year=1999 |pages=69–79 |doi=10.1111/j.1574-0862.1999.tb00584.x |url=http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/175082 }}</ref>