Canadian beef producer survey, 2020

The survey was designed to better understand Canadian beef producers grazing practices (continuous, rotational or adaptive such as Holistic Management, Adaptive Multipaddock or regenerative grazing), their reported well-being, mindsets (management priorities, systems thinking, etc) and demographics. The panel was recruited and run by Kynetec which is a specialist agricultural polling firm, who recruited for the study from their proprietary Canadian Producer Database.

The survey was stratified across the four largest beef-producing provinces, roughly proportionally to farm numbers: Alberta (n=85), Saskatchewan (n=45), Manitoba (n=35) and Ontario (n=35). No criteria were applied on the amount of beef production, and respondents could also have other commodities. However, all participants had to be over 18, either the sole or joint decision-maker on their property (not secondary), have beef as part of their gross farm sales in 2018, and they had to graze cattle rather than simply feed them.