The Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) will receive over $7.5 million from the federal AgriScience Program — Clusters Component. AgriScience — a federally funded program under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (S-CAP) — will back DFC for research into “solutions to improve the environmental and economic sustainability, and resilience of the Canadian dairy industry,” Agriculture […] Read more
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Dairy industry gets sustainability funding
Sustainable Canadian Agriculture Program application window opens
The program provides increase federal-provincial funding to farmers
Applications have opened for the new federal-provincial $1.7 billion agri-food sector support program – Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (S-CAP). Nationally, S-CAP will invest $3.5 billion over five years starting April 1, 2023. It replaces the Canadian Agricultural Partnership. Lisa Thompson, Ontario minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, highlighted it provides $569 million in new […] Read more
New policy framework receives a mixed response
Climate resilience and production will now be tied into farm risk management programs
Federal and provincial agriculture ministers have agreed on a new five-year policy framework for agriculture and it contains climate action goals on fertilizer disliked by some ministers. Lisa Thompson, Ontario’s minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, said she was disappointed by the federal government’s imposition of fertilizer emissions reduction targets when food security is […] Read more
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