[1] The organization is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, with the mandate to provide a unified industry voice at the national level.

To promote awareness of agricultural producer organizations, the CFA sponsors a "Food Freedom Day",[3] the date when an average Canadian family has earned enough income to pay the grocery bill for the entire year.

[7] The current President of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture is Mary Robinson.

Robinson had previously been the chairperson of the Canadian Ag HR Council and, before that, President of the PEI Federation of Agriculture.

Organizational decision-making is decided through a subset of the board of directors, called the National Council.