The minister of agriculture and agri-food () is a minister of the Crown in the Cabinet of Canada, who is responsible for overseeing several organizations including Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the Canadian Dairy Commission, Farm Credit Canada, the National Farm Products Council and the Canadian Grain Commission.
The post was established in 1995 as a successor to the minister of agriculture (), a position that existed since Canadian Confederation in 1867. The post was temporarily discontinued in 2025, being merged with the Minister of Rural Economic Development to create a new post, the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Rural Economic Development.
List of ministers
Key:
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan=7|Minister of Agriculture
|-
!No.
!Portrait
!Name
!colspan=2|Term of office
!Political party
!Ministry
|-
! style="background:; color:white"| 1
|50px
|Jean-Charles Chapais
|July 1, 1867 || November 15, 1869
|Conservative (historical)
|rowspan=3|1 <small>(Macdonald)</small>
|-
! style="background:; color:white"| 2
|50px
|Christopher Dunkin
|November 16, 1869 || October 24, 1871
|Conservative (historical)
|-
! style="background:; color:white"| 3
|50px
|John Henry Pope<br>(1st time)
|October 25, 1871 || November 5, 1873
|Liberal-Conservative
|-
! style="background:;"| 4
|50px
|Luc Letellier de St-Just
|November 7, 1873 || December 14, 1876
|Liberal
|rowspan=3|2 <small>(Mackenzie)</small>
|-
! style="background:;"| –
|50px
|Isaac Burpee<br>(Acting)
|December 15, 1876 || January 25, 1877
|Liberal
|-
! style="background:;"| 5
|50px
|Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier
|January 25, 1877 || October 8, 1878
|Liberal
|-
! style="background:; color:white"| <small>(3)</small>
|50px
|John Henry Pope<br>(2nd time)
|October 17, 1878 || September 25, 1885
|Liberal-Conservative
|rowspan=2|3 <small>(Macdonald)</small>
|-
!rowspan=2 style="background:; color:white"| 6
|rowspan=2|50px
|rowspan=2|John Carling
|September 25, 1885 || June 6, 1891
|rowspan=2|Conservative (historical)
|-
|June 16, 1891 || November 24, 1892
|4 <small>(Abbott)</small>
|-
!rowspan=2 style="background:; color:white"| 7
|rowspan=2|50px
|rowspan=2|Auguste-Réal Angers
|December 7, 1892 || December 12, 1894
|rowspan=2|Conservative (historical)
|5 <small>(Thompson)</small>
|-
|December 21, 1894 || July 12, 1895
|rowspan=5|6 <small>(Bowell)</small>
|-
! style="background:; color:white"| 8
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|Joseph-Aldric Ouimet<br>(Acting)
|July 13, 1895 || December 20, 1895
|Liberal-Conservative
|-
! style="background:; color:white"| 9
|50px
|Walter Humphries Montague<br>(1st time)
|December 21, 1895 || January 5, 1896
|Conservative (historical)
|-
! style="background:; color:white"| –
|50px
|Donald Ferguson<br>(Acting)
|January 6, 1896 || January 14, 1896
|Conservative (historical)
|-
!rowspan=2 style="background:; color:white"| <small>(9)</small>
|rowspan=2|50px
|rowspan=2|Walter Humphries Montague<br>(2nd time)
|January 15, 1896 || April 27, 1896
|rowspan=2|Conservative (historical)
|-
|May 1, 1896 || July 8, 1896
|7 <small>(Tupper)</small>
|-
! style="background:;"| 10
|50px
|Sydney Arthur Fisher
|July 13, 1896 || October 6, 1911
|Liberal
|8 <small>(Laurier)</small>
|-
! style="background:; color:white"| 11
|50px
|Martin Burrell
|October 16, 1911 || October 12, 1917
|Conservative (historical)
|9 <small>(Borden)</small>
|-
! style="background:; color:white"| 12
|50px
|Thomas Crerar<br>(1st time)
|October 12, 1917 || June 11, 1919
|Unionist
|rowspan=3|10 <small>(Borden)</small>
|-
! style="background:; color:white"| –
|50px
|James Alexander Calder<br>(Acting)
|June 18, 1919 || August 11, 1919
|Unionist
|-
!rowspan=2 style="background:; color:white"| 13
|rowspan=2|50px
|rowspan=2|Simon Fraser Tolmie<br>(1st time)
|August 12, 1919 || July 10, 1920
|rowspan=2|Conservative (historical)
|-
|July 10, 1920 || December 29, 1921
|11 <small>(Meighen)</small>
|-
! style="background:;"| 14
|50px
|William Richard Motherwell<br>(1st time)
|December 29, 1921 || June 28, 1926
|Liberal
|12 <small>(King)</small>
|-
! style="background:; color:white"| –
|50px
|Henry Herbert Stevens<br>(Acting)
|June 29, 1926 || July 12, 1926
|Conservative (historical)
|rowspan=2|13 <small>(Meighen)</small>
|-
! style="background:; color:white"| <small>(13)</small>
|50px
|Simon Fraser Tolmie<br>(2nd time)
|July 13, 1926 || September 25, 1926
|Conservative (historical)
|-
! style="background:;"| <small>(14)</small>
|50px
|William Richard Motherwell<br>(2nd time)
|September 25, 1926 || August 7, 1930
|Liberal
|14 <small>(King)</small>
|-
! style="background:; color:white"| 15
|50px
|Robert Weir
|August 8, 1930 || October 23, 1935
|Conservative (historical)
|15 <small>(Bennett)</small>
|-
! style="background:;"| –
|50px
|Thomas Crerar<br>(2nd time; Acting)
|October 25, 1935 || November 3, 1935
|Liberal
|rowspan=2|16 <small>(King)</small>
|-
!rowspan=2 style="background:;"| 16
|rowspan=2|50px
|rowspan=2|James Garfield Gardiner
|November 4, 1935 || November 15, 1948
|rowspan=2|Liberal
|-
|November 15, 1948 || June 21, 1957
|17 <small>(St. Laurent)</small>
|-
! style="background:; color:white"| 17
|50px
|Douglas Harkness
|June 21, 1957<br><small>(Acting until Aug.7)</small> || October 10, 1960
|Progressive Conservative
|rowspan=2|18 <small>(Diefenbaker)</small>
|-
! style="background:; color:white"| 18
|50px
|Alvin Hamilton
|October 11, 1960 || April 22, 1963
|Progressive Conservative
|-
! style="background:;"| 19
|50px
|Harry Hays
|April 22, 1963 || December 17, 1965
|Liberal
|rowspan=2|19 <small>(Pearson)</small>
|-
!rowspan=2 style="background:;"| 20
| rowspan="2" |
|rowspan=2|John James Greene
|December 18, 1965 || April 20, 1968
|rowspan=2|Liberal
|-
|April 20, 1968 || July 5, 1968
|rowspan=3|20 <small>(P. E. Trudeau)</small>
|-
! style="background:;"| 21
|50px
|Bud Olson
|July 6, 1968 || November 26, 1972
|Liberal
|-
! style="background:;"| 22
|50px
|Eugene Whelan<br>(1st time)
|November 27, 1972 || June 3, 1979
|Liberal
|-
! style="background:; color:white"| 23
|50px
|John Wise<br>(1st time)
|June 4, 1979 || March 2, 1980
|Progressive Conservative
|21 <small>(Clark)</small>
|-
! style="background:;"|<small>(22)</small>
|50px
|Eugene Whelan<br>(2nd time)
|March 3, 1980 || June 29, 1984
|Liberal
|22 <small>(P. E. Trudeau)</small>
|-
! style="background:;"| 24
|50px
|Ralph Ferguson
|June 30, 1984 || September 16, 1984
|Liberal
|23 <small>(Turner)</small>
|-
! style="background:; color:white"| <small>(23)</small>
|50px
|John Wise<br>(2nd time)
|September 17, 1984 || September 14, 1988
|Progressive Conservative
|rowspan=4|24 <small>(Mulroney)</small>
|-
! style="background:; color:white"| 25
|50px
|Don Mazankowski
|September 15, 1988 || April 20, 1991
|Progressive Conservative
|-
! style="background:; color:white"| 26
|50px
|Bill McKnight
|April 21, 1991 || January 3, 1993
|Progressive Conservative
|-
!rowspan=2 style="background:; color:white"| 27
|rowspan=2|50px
|rowspan=2|Charles Mayer
|January 4, 1993 || June 24, 1993
|rowspan=2|Progressive Conservative
|-
|June 24, 1993 || November 3, 1993
|25 <small>(Campbell)</small>
|-
! style="background:;"| 28
|50px
|Ralph Goodale
|November 4, 1993 || January 11, 1995
|Liberal
|26 <small>(Chrétien)</small>
|-
! colspan=7|Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food
|-
! style="background:;"| 28
|50px
|Ralph Goodale
|January 12, 1995 || June 10, 1997
|Liberal
|rowspan=2|26 <small>(Chrétien)</small>
|-
! style="background:;"| 29
|50px
|Lyle Vanclief
|June 11, 1997 || December 11, 2003
|Liberal
|-
! style="background:;"| 30
|50px
|Bob Speller
|December 12, 2003 || July 19, 2004
|Liberal
|rowspan=2|27 <small>(Martin)</small>
|-
! style="background:;"| 31
|50px
|Andy Mitchell
|July 20, 2004 || February 5, 2006
|Liberal
|-
! style="background:; color:white"| 32
|50px
|Chuck Strahl
|February 6, 2006 || August 14, 2007
|Conservative
|rowspan=2|28 <small>(Harper)</small>
|-
! style="background:; color:white"| 33
|50px
|Gerry Ritz
|August 14, 2007 || November 4, 2015
|Conservative
|-
! style="background:;"| 34
|50px
| Lawrence MacAulay<br>(1st time)
| November 4, 2015 || March 1, 2019
| Liberal
| rowspan=3|29 <small>(J. Trudeau)</small>
|-
! style="background:;| 35
|50px
|Marie-Claude Bibeau
|March 1, 2019 || July 26, 2023
|Liberal
|-
! style="background:;"| <small>(34)</small>
|50px
| Lawrence MacAulay<br>(2nd time)
| July 26, 2023 || March 14, 2025
|Liberal
|-
! colspan=7|Position discontinued, replaced by the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Rural Economic Development
|-
! colspan="7" |Position re-established as Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food
|-
! style="background:;"| 36
|
| Heath MacDonald
| May 13, 2025 || present
|Liberal
| rowspan=1|30 <small>(Carney)</small>
|}
See also
- Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food (Canada)