Insights and Stories on Agrirecovery

Sask. Crop Report: Half of winter wheat, fall rye crops harvested

Aug. 12, 2021 at 3:18 pm CDT

MarketsFarm – While a few scattered showers across Saskatchewan delayed some of the harvest, the hot and dry weather has allowed farmers to make more progress than last year. Seven per cent of the province’s crop has been combined and six per cent is ready to straight combine, according to […]

Tax deferrals, crop insurance changes en route against drought

Jul. 22, 2021 at 5:40 pm CDT

By D.C. Fraser

‘Time is ticking’ on drought response for beef cattle sector

Jul. 20, 2021 at 6:55 pm CDT

By Lisa Guenther

Request line open for AgriRecovery drought plans, Bibeau says

Jul. 15, 2021 at 7:48 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Set-aside funded for Quebec hog, cattle, big game producers

Apr. 15, 2021 at 8:27 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Alberta hog farmers to get set-aside via AgriRecovery

Mar. 5, 2021 at 9:27 pm CST

An AgriRecovery plan announced Friday is set to pay eligible Alberta farmers 95 cents per day per market-ready hog toward the animals’ upkeep during the shutdown of the province’s biggest hog slaughter plant. Olymel, the meat packing arm of Sollio Co-operative, reopened its plant at Red Deer this week after […]

By Dave Bedard

Cattle set-aside programs winding down

Jan. 11, 2021 at 4:18 am CST

AgriRecovery programs set up in Saskatchewan and Alberta to help cover feed costs for cattle producers unable to ship livestock to slaughter are gearing down, while Ontario’s program begins a third intake. Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corp. announced Friday that the province’s AgriRecovery set-aside program will end March 31, 2021, with […]

By Dave Bedard

Ontario’s beef set-aside AgriRecovery plan underway

Dec. 22, 2020 at 10:06 am CST

A set-aside program has formally been launched to help Ontario’s 6,800-odd cattle producers maintain market-ready animals while Eastern Canada’s biggest beef slaughter plant remains closed. Federal and provincial officials on Monday announced applications are now open for the Canada-Ontario COVID-19 AgriRecovery Beef Emergency Feed Maintenance Initiative, with applications for the […]

By Dave Bedard

Ontario hog set-aside plan underway

Dec. 7, 2020 at 11:42 am CST

Ontario hog farmers can now apply for AgriRecovery toward feed costs for hogs held back from sale when certain pork packers went into COVID-19-induced slowdowns. Agricorp, the province’s ag program delivery agency, on Nov. 25 announced the Canada-Ontario COVID-19 2020 Hog Maintenance Feed Initiative, which started effective Nov. 6 and […]

By Dave Bedard

Manitoba cattle sector gets COVID-19 AgriRecovery

Oct. 15, 2020 at 11:57 pm CDT

Manitoba cattle producers whose usual markets for finished cattle were temporarily out of reach this spring and summer may now be able to offset some of the resulting extra feed bills. Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau and her Manitoba counterpart, Blaine Pedersen, on Thursday announced the 2020 Canada-Manitoba Finished Cattle […]

By Dave Bedard

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