Growing Forward
Canada’s New Agricultural Policy
Framework
Agricultural Policy in Canada
• Federal and Provincial (and Territorial)
responsibility
• The Agricultural Policy Framework (APF)
agreement in 2003, 5-year program
• Spending priorities outlined in the APF
• Program funding by Federal and Provincial
governments
APF Characteristics (5 Pillars)
1. Business Risk Management – program
payments, crop insurance
2. Food Safety and Quality - traceability
3. Science and Innovation – new crops and
opportunities
4. Environment – enhance soil, water and
air quality, and biodiversity
5. Renewal – skills development/extension
Business Risk Management
• AgriInvest – producer accounts to help
cover margin declines
• AgriStability – to cover large margin
declines
• AgriInsurance – crop insurance
• AgriRecovery – disaster at a regional level
• Advance Payments Program – cash
advances to help with cash flow
• http://www.agr.gc.ca/agriinvest
AgriInvest
• A producer account from which payments area
made to the producer (account can not go into
deficit), also only margin declines of less than
15%
• Payment used to address a small margin decline
• Producer deposits of up to 1.5% of allowable net
annual sales
• Producer money is matched by government
• Supply managed commodities not covered
AgriStability
• Provides support when a large margin
decline is experienced
• For margin declines of greater than 15%
• Whole farm support, targeted to individual
producers
AgriInsurance
• Includes existing production insurance
programs
• Expanded to include additional
commodities
• Payments made when a production loss is
incurred (drought, frost, flood, …)
• Delivered by the provinces
AgriRecovery
• Government response to disasters in a
specific region or industy
• Assistance is to be ‘rapid’
Advance Payments Program
• Cash advances available to producers
(mainly annual cropping)
• To provide cash flow throughout the year
(especially in the spring-early summer)
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