Insured Crop Date Base (Base de données des cultures assurées - BDCA)

• Technical date concerning the BDCA
• Acquisition fees

In the framework of its insurance operations, La Financière agricole gathers information on cultivated areas and insured crops. The digitized contours of parcels and their areas come from the Agricultural Land Data Base, while crops are reported every year by insured farm producers.

La Financière agricole du Québec produces specific information derived from the data, while assuring the protection of its clients' personal information, and makes it available in the Insured Crop Data Base (BCDA). The crop declarations are grouped together into the following main categories: hay, corn, wheat, barley, oats, soybeans, canola, other cereals, market garden crops, small fruits or no crop information. The information covers roughly 90% of Québec's farmland and is now available for 2008 to 2010.

Some technical data on the BDCA

• Coverage: all of Québec's agricultural land
• System of coordinates: geographic coordinates in NAD 83
• Sheet line system: ~200 sheets at a scale of 1:50,000 (national topographic system, NTS); sheet index
•  Data base fields: crop code and area
• Type of file: Shapefile
• Updated: every year in October
• Licence to use the vector contours (French) contained in the data base files of insured crops

Price List

• 1:50,000 scale sheet: $75 (sheet map available) (French)
• All of Québec (1 file): $12,000
• For more information about this product, please consult the Technical Guide (French) (122 Kb) and dowload extract (Shapefile 25 Kb) or contact us by E-mail.