The cost of farm inputs in Canada was 0 point 4 per cent lower in the first quarter of 2015 from the previous quarter.
Statistics Canada says a 4 point 2 per cent drop in machinery and motor vehicle costs led the decline.
Crop production, animal production and general business costs were all higher in the first quarter.
Compared to a year ago, farm input prices were up 2 point 7 per cent.
A 13 point 6 per cent increase in animal production costs led the way in that year-over-year increase.
Statscan says Ontario farm input prices were up 1 per cent in the first quarter of this year from the last quarter of 2014.
They were 4 point 1 per cent higher than a year ago.
That year-over-year increase was second only to an 8 point 3 per cent year-over-year increase in farm input prices in B-C among the Canadian provinces.
