Farm Bankruptcies in Canada and Provinces Over a 20-Year Period

Farm bankruptcy data for Canada and its provinces is provided by the Government of Alberta. The dataset covers a twenty-year period and is available in HTML and XLSX formats. It was last updated on March 25, 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling agricultural financial risk based on bankruptcy trends over time.
• Analyzing regional economic vulnerability based on provincial-level bankruptcy data.
• Tracking the impact of policy or market changes on farm stability based on the 20-year time series.

Strengths

• Covers a twenty-year period, enabling longitudinal analysis.
• Provides data at both national and provincial levels for geographic comparison.
• Last updated on 2026-03-25, suggesting a forward-looking maintenance schedule.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Government of Alberta | Gouvernement de l'Alberta

Time Range

Twenty-year period (specific years unknown)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 07:04:33.429374; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Canada and its provinces