ABSTRACT
Agricultural commodities, fish products, and fresh water complete the inventory of resources significant in US-Canadian relations. Like forest products, all are replenishable, although over differing periods of time. In the sense that land provides the foundation on which nearly all the economic activity of any country depends, it is the most basic, of natural resources. The agricultural endowment of the United States is further enhanced by a higher overall level of agricultural soil quality than in Canada and by a milder climate, both of which contribute to higher levels of output and a greater variety of products. The United States and Canada have so many rivers and lakes in common, it is hardly surprising that in the late nineteenth century a good many water problems emerged along the boundary. Agriculture is unlike most other resource sectors in the US-Canadian context in that the United States is the country of relatively greater production and production potential.
