The governments of Canada and Ontario are investing up to $5 million to help make community grazing pastures in Ontario more productive and resilient. To support the Ontario government’s plan to protect Ontario, this funding will help strengthen Ontario’s agriculture and agri-food sector by helping cattle farmers improve the quality of shared community pasture lands for their … Read more
A new website developed by the provincial Department of Agriculture is now available to help Prince Edward Island’s agriculture industry better understand and access programs available through the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (Sustainable CAP). The full release is available online. Contact annie.cullinan@agr.gc.ca.
Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Heath MacDonald (Malpeque, PEI) and Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister Daryl Harrison announced $3.4 million over four years to support the development of two new facilities at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) which includes the Omics Resource Centre at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) and Beef Reprotech facilities at the Livestock and Forage Centre … Read more
The governments of Canada and Saskatchewan announced that 32 Agriculture Demonstration of Practices and Technologies (ADOPT) projects and six Strategic Field Program (SFP) projects received more than $1.4 million in funding in 2024–25 under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (Sustainable CAP). The full release is available online. Contact annie.cullinan@agr.gc.ca.
Saskatchewan students pursuing a post-secondary education in agriculture were awarded the Agriculture Student Scholarship. Abbey Norek is this year’s Agriculture Student Scholarship grand-prize $6,000 winner. The full release is available online. Contact aafc.mediarelations-relationsmedias.aac@canada.ca.
The Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture will be closing application intake under the Irrigation Development Program as of April 30, 2025. Applications may still be submitted under the program from April 30 to May 30, but those projects must be completed, with claims submitted, by Dec. 31, 2025. The full release is available online. Call 613-773-7972.
The federal, provincial, and territorial governments including Manitoba have extended the enrolment deadline for the 2025 AgriStability program to July 31, 2025, in response to tariffs in the agriculture sector and to allow producers time to enroll in the program as they manage the impact of current market disruptions. The full release is available online. Call 613-773-7972.
Given the pressures and uncertainties facing the agricultural sector, federal, provincial and territorial governments have agreed to extend the AgriStability enrolment deadline from April 30, 2025, to July 31, 2025, for the 2025 program year. The full release is available online. Contact annie.cullinan@agr.gc.ca.
The agriculture sector is experiencing multiple challenges, including the tariffs imposed by China, trade uncertainty with the United States, and other risks like animal disease. To help our hard-working producers get through these challenges, Minister for Agriculture and Agri-food and for Rural Economic Development Kody Blois (Kings–Hants, N.S.) announced supports for the agricultural sector through AgriStability. The … Read more
Ahead of Canadian Agricultural Safety Week, which takes place March 16-22, Agriculture and Agri-food Minister Lawrence MacAulay (Cardigan, PEI) announced up to $1,607,291 over three years to the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association through the AgriCompetitiveness Program, an initiative under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership. The full release is available online. Contact annie.cullinan@agr.gc.ca.
