Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

News from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

  1. Today, Canada's Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Lawrence MacAulay and Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister David Marit announced additional payments will be provided to eligible livestock producers already enrolled in the 2023 Canada-Saskatchewan Feed Program.
  2. Today, Élisabeth Brière, Member of Parliament for Sherbrooke and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Families, Children and Social Development and to the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health, on behalf of the Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, announced the 5 projects that will receive up to $1 million in funding each under Phase 2 of the Innovative Solutions Canada (ISC) program – Challenge Stream. The announcement was made at Exonetik Inc., one of the Phase 2 winners.
  3. Innovative Solutions Canada (ISC) helps Canadian innovators who want to start, grow, and get to market by funding research and development, and testing prototypes in real-life settings.
  4. Élisabeth Brière, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Families, Children and Social Development and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health and Member of Parliament for Sherbrooke, on behalf of the Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, will announce financial support for 5 projects as part of the Innovative Solutions Canada program to promote innovation in agriculture.
  5. The governments of Canada and Manitoba are providing financial support to the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair in Brandon, one of Manitoba's key cultural events, federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Lawrence MacAulay and provincial Minister of Agriculture Ron Kostyshyn announced today.
  6. Today, the Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, announced that the interest-free limit of the Advance Payments Program has been set at $250,000 for the 2024 program year.
  7. New Brunswick farmers have access to new resources to help them conserve and enhance the resiliency of their land.
  8. The governments of Canada and Manitoba are providing $16.3 million in grant funding under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (Sustainable CAP) to support 101 projects under the Research and Innovation program over the next three years, federal Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister the Honourable Lawrence MacAulay and Manitoba Agriculture Minister Ron Kostyshyn announced today.
  9. From farm to plate, through production, processing, distribution, retail, food service and at home, over half of Canada’s annual food supply is reportedly wasted or lost.
  10. Building on a successful mission to Southeast Asia where he officially opened Canada’s first-ever trade office for agriculture and seafood in the Indo-Pacific region, the Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, travelled to Boston, Massachusetts this week to attend Seafood Expo North America, the largest seafood trade exposition in North America.