Statistics Canada has released some farm income figures for 2013.
The agency has both realized net income and total net income figures.
Realized net income is the difference between a farmer's cash receipts and operating expenses, minus depreciation, plus income in kind.
Statscan says that number went up 1 point 1 per cent in 2013 to 6 point 4 billion dollars.
Total net income adjusts the realized net income for changes in farmer-owned inventories of crops and livestock.
That number went up by 5 point 7 billion to 12 billion dollars in 2013.
Farm cash receipts were up 2 per cent last year, expenses up 1 point 8 per cent, and program payments were down over 20 per cent.
That reflects decreases in things like AgriStability, provincial stabilization and crop insurance payments.
