Production of butterfat — AI AnalysisCanada's butterfat production has grown substantially over four decades, with total shipments rising 60.2% from 269,338 to 431,422 thousand kg between 1983 and 2025, driven primarily by industrial and fluid purposes. The dataset spans 516 monthly observations across 11 regions and 4 distribution catKey Findings

Total Canadian butterfat shipments grew 60.2% over the study period, reaching 431,422 thousand kg in 2025, up from 269,338 thousand kg in 1983.

The dataset is strongly right-skewed, with a mean of 2,436 thousand kg versus a median of just 404 thousand kg, reflecting the outsized weight of national totals compared to provincial figures.

'Shipments, total' is the largest distribution category with an average of 4,727 thousand kg, while 'Delivered as cream' is the smallest at just 25.2 thousand kg mean — nearly 188 times smaller.

Industrial purposes and total shipments are almost perfectly correlated (r=0.992), indicating that growth in industrial butterfat use is the primary driver of overall shipment volumes.

'Delivered as cream' behaves largely independently from other categories, showing weak correlations of only r=0.379 and r=0.329 with other distribution types.

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