 These farms account for $1.23 billion in gross farm receipts and $6.85 billion in total farm capital.The nearly 5,200 farm operators in the region farm 1,080,494 hectares of land in crops.There are about 840,000 cattle and calves in the region (about 13% of the provincial total) and just under 207,000 pigs (approximately 10% of the provincial total).