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Dairy industry gets sustainability funding 
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Dairy industry gets sustainability funding 

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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
The federal government aims to increase exports and industry sales while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Sustainable Canadian Agriculture Program application window opens

The program provides increase federal-provincial funding to farmers

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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
The minister is on the case: federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau checks out the cab of a new Case IH Magnum tractor during her visit to the Ag in Motion show on July 20, 2022. (Greg Berg photo)
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New policy framework receives a mixed response

Climate resilience and production will now be tied into farm risk management programs

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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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