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Strategic Outcome: An environmentally sustainable agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector; A competitive agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector that proactively manages risk; and An innovative agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector.

Program Activities: Environmental Knowledge, Technology, Information, and Measurement; On-Farm Action; Food Safety and Biosecurity Risk Management Systems; Trade and Market Development; Science, Innovation, and Adoption; and Agri-Business Development.

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Programming related to the Agricultural Flexibility Fund (Voted)

Start date: June 18, 2009

End date: March 31, 2014

Description:
Agricultural Flexibility Fund (AgriFlexibility) initiatives will fall under three project categories or elements:
1) Investments to help reduce the cost of production or improve environmental sustainability;
2) Investments in value-chain innovation and sectoral adaptation; and
3) Investments to address emerging opportunities and challenges.

AgriFlexibility is a Canada's Economic Action Plan (CEAP) Initiative.

Expected results:
Producers/ partners/ industry implement actions to improve their environmental practices;
Producers/ partners/ industry implement actions to reduce costs of production;
Improved food safety, biosecurity, traceability and risk management measures;
Agri-processors upgrade their capacity (through the modernization of their facility(ies);
Increase in value-chain efforts focussed on innovation and/or adaptation; and
Agri-industry implements actions to respond to market threats and/or take advantage of emerging market opportunities.

Performance Indicators:
Number of actions implemented by producers to improve their environmental practices;
Number of actions implemented by producers to reduce their costs of production;
Number of improved food safety, biosecurity, traceability and risk management measures; Number of Agri-processors that upgrade their capacity;
Number and types of activities that increased value-chain efforts focused on innovation and/or adaptation; and
Number of actions implemented to respond to market threats and/or take advantage of emerging market opportunities.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Planned spending for 2010-11 to 2012-13 reflects only the funding presented in the 2010-11 Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU). It does not include any additional amounts that may be brought into the Department's reference levels.

Strategic Outcome: An environmentally sustainable agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector.

Program Activity: Environmental Knowledge, Technology, Information, and Measurement / On-Farm Action

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contributions to promote Environmentally Responsible Agriculture (Voted)

Start date: April 1, 2008

End date: March 31, 2013

Description:
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) supports farmers through agri-environmental risk assessment and planning; providing expertise, information and incentives to increase the adoption of sustainable agriculture practices at the farm and landscape levels; investigating and developing new approaches that encourage and support the adoption of sustainable agriculture practices; and increasing the recognition of the value of sustainable agriculture practices. This program supports environmental stewardship and helps reduce the sector's overall impact on the environment. It contributes to a cleaner environment and healthier living conditions for Canadian people, and a more profitable agriculture sector.

Expected results:
Improved agri-environmental risk assessment and planning by agricultural producers.

Performance Indicator:
Increase in adoption levels of Beneficial Management Practices (BMP). Environmental Farm Plans set out out priorities for each farm once an environmental scan is performed. BMPs are based on priorities set out in that plan.

Target:
10% increase from previous program baselines by 2013. Baselines are from the Environmental Indicators for the National Agri-Health Analysis and Reporting Program (NAHARP).

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Planned spending for 2010-11 to 2012-13 reflects only the funding presented in the 2010-11 Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU). It does not include any additional amounts that may be brought into the Department's reference levels.

Strategic Outcome: A competitive agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector that proactively manages risk.

Program Activity: Business Risk Management

Name of Transfer Payment Program: AgriInsurance Program (Statutory)

Start date: April 1, 2008

End date: March 31, 2012
AI is statutory and ongoing; however, the current policy and program authorities expire March 31, 2012.

Description:
The AgriInsurance program is one of four core pillars of the business risk management suite available to producers under Growing Forward.

AgriInsurance (formerly the Production Insurance program), will aim to reduce the financial impact on producers of production losses caused by uncontrollable natural perils.

Authorities for the program include Section 4 of the Farm Income Protection (FIPA), as well as "Growing Forward: A Federal-Provincial-Territorial Framework Agreement on Agriculture, Agri-Food and Agri-Based Products Policy" and "Federal / Provincial AgriInsurance Agreement."

Federal AgriInsurance website:
British Columbia
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Ontario
Quebec
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Prince Edward Island
Newfoundland

Expected results:
The financial impacts of production losses are mitigated by providing effective insurance protection.

Performance Indicators:
1. Value of insured production compared to the total value of all agricultural products eligible for insurance reported as follows: Percentage of Crops - Target 60%.
2. Value of crops eligible for insurance compared to the value of all agricultural products reported as follows: Percentage of Crops – Target 85%.

The Expected Results, Performance Indicators and Targets listed above are based on those provided for AAFC''s 2009-10 Performance Measurement Framework.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Planned spending for 2010-11 to 2012-13 reflects only the funding presented in the 2010-11 Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU). It does not include any additional amounts that may be brought into the Department's reference levels.

Strategic Outcome: A competitive agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector that proactively manages risk.

Program Activity: Business Risk Management

Name of Transfer Payment Program: AgriInvest Program (Statutory)

Start date: December 19, 2007
Agreements were signed with the provinces to implement the program starting in the 2007 program year.

End date: March 31, 2012
AgriInvest is statutory and ongoing; however, the current policy and program authorities expire on this date.

Description:
The AgriInvest program is one of four core pillars of the business risk management suite available to producers under Growing Forward.

AgriInvest allows producers to self-manage, through producer and government funded savings accounts, the first 15 per cent of their margin losses for a production year and/or make investments to reduce on-farm risks or increase farm revenues (effective July 2010, AgriInvest accounts will be held by participating financial insitutions). Under the program, annual producer deposits of up to 1.5 percent of their allowable net sales are matched by government deposits. Government deposits are cost-shared 60:40 by federal and provincial governments. In combination with the AgriStability program, AgriInvest is the successor to the Canadian Agricultural Income Stabilization (CAIS) program. AgriInvest replaces coverage for smaller income declines where AgriStability assists producers in managing larger losses.

AgriInvest provides producers with a secure, accessible, predictable and bankable source of income assistance to address small drops in farm income and manage on-farm risks.

Federal AgriInvest Website
AgriInvest in Quebec (La Financière agricole du Québec)

Expected results:
Producers have the flexibility in managing small financial risks. Producers use program account balances to address income declines or to make investments to reduce on-farm risks or increase farm revenues.

Performance Indicators:
1.Percentage of AgriInvest producers receiving AgriStability payments and making withdrawals from their AgriInvest saving accounts. Target is at least 60% of AgriInvest producers.
2. Percentage of producers indicating that they use their funds to address income declines or make investments to reduce on-farm risks or increase farm revenues. Target is at least 75% of producers.

The Expected Results, Performance Indicators and Targets listed above are based on those provided for AAFC's 2009-10 Performance Measurement Framework.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
As required, the allocations to Grant versus Contribution may be adjusted and these would be reflected in the Supplementary Estimates, the Departmental Performance Report and Public Accounts.

Planned spending for 2010-11 to 2012-13 reflects only the funding presented in the 2010-11 Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU). It does not include any additional amounts that may be brought into the Department's reference levels.

Strategic Outcome: A competitive agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector that proactively manages risk.

Program Activity: Business Risk Management

Name of Transfer Payment Program: AgriStability Program (Statutory)

Start date: December 19, 2007
Agreements were signed with the provinces to implement the program starting in the 2007 program year

End date:March 31, 2012
AgriStability is statutory and ongoing; however, the current policy and program authorities expire on this date.

Description:
The AgriStability program is one of four core pillars of the business risk management suite available to producers under Growing Forward.

AgriStability is a margin-based program that provides support when a producer experiences larger farm income losses, which are drops in their margin (eligible farm income, less eligible farm expenses) for the program year of more than 15 percent of the producer's average margin from previous years (i.e., their reference margin). Thus, a payment is triggered under the program when a producer's program year margin drops below 85 percent of their reference margin. AgriStability also includes coverage for negative margins, as well as mechanisms to advance a participant a portion of their expected payment during the year when a significant decline in income is expected (interim payments and Targeted Advance Payments). In combination with the AgriInvest program, it is the successor to the Canadian Agricultural Income Stabilization (CAIS) program. AgriInvest replaces coverage for smaller income declines where AgriStability assists producers in managing larger losses.

Federal AgriStability Website
AgriStability in Alberta (Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC))
AgriStability in Ontario (Agricorp)
AgriStability in Quebec (La Financière agricole du Québec)
AgriStability on Prince Edward Island (PEI Agricultural Insurance Corporation)

Expected results:
The short-term impacts of larger income losses (losses of over 15% relative to their historical reference margin) are reduced.

Performance Indicators:
1. Participants' farm market revenues compared to total farm market revenues for the industry. Target - 80% of total farm market revenues are covered by the program.
2. Participant's production margin with and without payments compared to reference margin. Target - Program payments bring producer's margin up to 75% of reference margin.

The Expected Results, Performance Indicators and Targets listed above are based on those provided for AAFC's 2009-10 Performance Measurement Framework.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
As required, the allocations to Grant versus Contribution may be adjusted and these would be reflected in the Supplementary Estimates, the Departmental Performance Report and Public Accounts.

Planned spending for 2010-11 to 2012-13 reflects only the funding presented in the 2010-11 Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU). It does not include any additional amounts that may be brought into the Department's reference levels.

Strategic Outcome: A competitive agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector that proactively manages risk.

Program Activity: Business Risk Management

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Agricultural Disaster Relief Program (ADRP) / AgriRecovery (Statutory)

Start date: December 6, 2007
Program authorities were obtained to implement the ADRP under the AgriRecovery disaster relief framework beginning with the 2007-08 fiscal year.

End date: March 31, 2011

Description:
The AgriRecovery framework is one of four core pillars of the business risk management suite available to producers under Growing Forward.

AgriRecovery facilitates the process for federal, provincial and territorial governments to provide short-term, timely assistance to help producers quickly re-establish their income stream and contain the long-term impacts after a small to mid-size disaster (disease, pest, weather-related). Programs under AgriRecovery are developed on a case-by-case basis after an assessment is completed and it is determined that there is need for assistance not covered by existing programs, such as AgriInvest, AgriStability and AgriInsurance.

Under AgriRecovery, the ADRP helps focus the coordination effort, providing fast-tracked programs of up to $20.0 million (up to $121.7 million per fiscal year) to quickly fund initiatives under AgriRecovery.

Participating provinces-territories are expected to cost-share these initiatives on a 60:40 federal-provincial/territorial basis. For AgriRecovery programming outside the ADRP, funding options are negociated with the provinces on a case-by-case basis.

Links to the federal AgriRecovery Website

Expected results:
Farm business operations resume operations following a natural disaster. Producers affected by a disaster situation benefit from financial assistance.

Performance Indicators:
1. Percentage of producers still farming one year after the disaster. Target is 70% of producers still farming one year later.
2. Percentage of producers who believe that the financial assistance provided under the program played a role in the recovery. Target is 75% of participants.

The Expected Results, Performance Indicators and Targets listed above are based on those provided for AAFC's 2009-10 Performance Measurement Framework.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
As required, the allocations to Grant versus Contribution may be adjusted and these would be reflected in the Supplementary Estimates, the Departmental Performance Report and Public Accounts.

Planned spending for 2010-11 to 2012-13 reflects only the funding presented in the 2010-11 Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU). It does not include any additional amounts that may be brought into the Department's reference levels.

Strategic Outcome: A competitive agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector that proactively manages risk.

Program Activity: Business Risk Management

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Payments in connection with the Agricultural Marketing Programs Act - Advance Payments Program (Statutory)

Start date: 1997

End date: On-going under the AMPA legislation

Description:
The Advance Payments Program (APP) is a financial loan guarantee program that guarantees cash advances to producers, enabling them to produce and market their agricultural products when conditions are most ideal. Producers can receive cash advances of up to $400,000 per production period, the first $100,000 of which is interest-free. Advances can be on a variety of crops and/or livestock and producers have up to 18 months (usually from April until September of the following year) to use their cash advance for whatever purpose they feel necessary. The producer must repay their advance (as they are selling/delivering their product) in full before the end of the 18 month production period.

Expected results:
- Provide producers with greater access to credit (supplying advances to over 35,000 producers).
- Improved cash flow for producers receiving APP advances (achieving advance amount of approximately $2.5 billion).
- Administer the program in a prudent manner for eligible producers (achieving a default rate of under 2% of total amount advanced).

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Planned spending for 2010-11 to 2012-13 reflects only the funding presented in the 2010-11 Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU). It does not include any additional amounts that may be brought into the Department's reference levels.

Strategic Outcome: A competitive agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector that proactively manages risk.

Program Activity: Business Risk Management

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contributions in support of the Assistance to the Pork Industry Initiative (Statutory)

Start date: September 22, 2009

End date: March 31, 2014

Description:
The Assistance to the Pork Industry Initiative is composed of two programs:

Hog Industry Loan Loss Reserve Program (HILLRP) - was established to assist viable hog operations with their short term liquidity pressures by having the Government of Canada share the risk with financial institutions by consolidating short term debt into long term loans. It is designed to increase access to credit for eligible producers currently producing hogs in Canada, who can provide a business plan which demonstrates that the business is or can be viable and has a reasonable prospect of repaying the loan.

The terms of the loans will be negotiated between lenders and applicants but shall not exceed 15 years. Where possible, a maximum 10-year term will be encouraged.
Lenders are responsible for assessing applications, extending and managing loan amounts in accordance with the program's terms and conditions, managing their Reserve Fund and for any losses beyond those that can be drawn from the Reserve Fund. As such, lenders continue to bear a proportion of the risk for loans extended under the HILLRP.

Hog Farm Transition Program (HFTP) - Delivered by the Canadian Pork Council, it will help the hog industry to restructure by providing payments to those hog producers who agree to set aside all hog production in their enterprises for a minimum of three years. Hog producers tender bids equal to the amount of funds they would require to shut down their total production for the three-year period.

Expected results:
The HLLRP is designed to increase access to credit for eligible producers currently producing hogs in Canada. This will:
- Alleviate short term liquidity pressures; and
- Assist the industry to continue operations and respond to long term market signals.

Performance Indicators: Number of agreements signed; Value of reserve-backed loans provided to eligible hog producers; and, percentage of hog producers receiving reserve-backed loans that continue in the first 12 months to repay the loans without defaulting.

The maximum total loan loss reserve that AAFC will provide under HILLRP is $404 million.

The HFTP will lead to the following outcomes:
- Compensation to hog producers that cease production for three years;
- A number of participating hog operations ceasing production for three years; and
- A reduction in the population of hogs in Canada.

Performance indicators include: number of program participants that cease production for 3 years; and reduction in the number of breeding animals and hogs produced in Canada once program is fully subscribed.

HFTP is a $75 million program. Assuming average bids are $500 per sow-equivalent, this would translate into a 3.2 million decline in annual hog production.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Planned spending for 2010-11 to 2012-13 reflects only the funding presented in the 2010-11 Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU). It does not include any additional amounts that may be brought into the Department's reference levels.

Strategic Outcome: A competitive agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector that proactively manages risk.

Program Activity: Food Safety and Biosecurity Risk Management Systems

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contributions to Enhance the Safety and Security of Canada's Food System (Voted)

Start date: April 1, 2008

End date: March 31, 2013

Description:
Programming for the "Contributions to Enhance the Safety and Security of Canada's Food System" is comprised of the following components:

Food Safety Systems Development
Food Safety Systems Development focuses on the development of voluntary science-based food safety systems by national organizations to effectively minimize food safety risks. It supports national (or equivalent) organizations in developing on-farm and/or post-farm Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point based food safety systems. Intended clients are national or regional non-profit organizations that are not represented by entities at the national level.

Food Safety Systems Implementation
Food Safety Systems Implementation facilitates the early adoption of government-recognized food safety systems by producers and non-federally registered food-processing enterprises through financial incentives.
Eligible projects could include the implementation of good manufacturing practices towards Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) or ISO 22000 standards in non-federally registered processing plants and the implementation of government reviewed HACCP-based food safety systems on farms. Implementation is administered by provinces and territories under Growing Forward.

Expected results:
Food Safety Systems Development
Increased number of national on-farm and post-farm organizations with food safety systems ready to submit to Canadian Food Inspection Agency for "recognition". Government-recognized on-farm food safety programs are technically based on the internationally accepted food safety control system called Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP).
Performance indicator: Number of organizations that submit to Canadian Food Inspection Agency for "recognition".
Targets: On-Farm target is 6 organizations and Post-Farm is 7 organizations. The date to achieve target is March 31, 2013.

Food Safety Systems Implementation
Increased number of producers and non-federally registered food processing enterprises engaged in food safety activities.
Performance Indicator: Number of provinces and territories with food safety activities as Growing Forward cost-shared programs.
Target: Specific Targets for Designated Programs covering food safety activities are set out in individual Bilateral Agreements.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Planned spending for 2010-11 to 2012-13 reflects only the funding presented in the 2010-11 Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU). It does not include any additional amounts that may be brought into the Department's reference levels.

Strategic Outcome: A competitive agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector that proactively manages risk.

Program Activity: Food Safety and Biosecurity Risk Management Systems

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contributions to Minimize the Occurrence and Extent of Risk Incidents (Voted)

Start date: April 1, 2008

End date: March 31, 2013

Description:
Programming for the "Contributions to Minimize the Occurrence and Extent of Risk Incidents" is comprised of the following components:

Biosecurity Standards Implementation
The approved national Biosecurity Standards form the basis for implementation of the minimum, biosecurity requirements for a particular sector at the farm-level. Provinces and territories are responsible for farm-level implementation and are able to impose additional standards to respond to a particular, unique need of the local industry.

Traceability Industry Infrastructure
Investment in Traceability Industry Infrastructure will enhance the industry's ability to follow the movement of a food through specific stage(s) of production, processing and distribution. It supports the development and implementation of industry infrastructure to participate in the National Agriculture and Food Traceability System. This program invests in the development of industry-led systems that collect and verify identification and movement data, and accelerates industry capacity.

Traceability Enterprise Infrastructure
The Traceability Enterprise Structure provides funding to individual businesses to assist in the purchase and installation of traceability infrastructure and the training of staff to implement traceability systems for plants, animals and products. This could include implementation of animal handling systems, equipment, and data systems necessary to record and report data to industry databases. These actions will enable recipients to participate fully in the National Agriculture and Food Traceability System.

Expected results:
Biosecurity Standards Implementation
Increased review and approval of biosecurity systems being implemented.
Performance Indicator: Number of biosecurity systems implemented.
Target: Specific targets for designated programs covering food safety activities are set out in individual Bilateral Agreements.

Traceability Industry Infrastructure
Increase in the development of industry-led traceability systems.
Performance Indicator: Number of organizations and private entities implementing industry-led traceability systems.
Target: 10 organizations and/or private entities. The date to achieve target is March 31, 2013.

Traceability Enterprise Infrastructure
All provinces and territories implementing traceability activities as Growing Forward cost-shared programs.
Performance Indicator: Number of provinces and territories with traceability activities as Growing Forward cost-shared programs.
Target: Specific targets for designated programs covering food safety activities are set out in individual Bilateral Agreements.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Planned spending for 2010-11 to 2012-13 reflects only the funding presented in the 2010-11 Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU). It does not include any additional amounts that may be brought into the Department's reference levels.

Strategic Outcome: A competitive agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector that proactively manages risk.

Program Activity: Food Safety and Biosecurity Risk Management Systems

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Control of diseases in the hog industry - Phase II (Voted)

Start date: September 4, 2008

End date: March 31, 2011

Description:
The Initiative for the Control of Diseases in the Hog Industry Phase II is a mid to long-term strategy to establish the foundation of a risk management framework for the Canadian hog sector.

Expected results:
The foundation for a structured swine health risk management framework is established and contributes to the prosperity and the stability of the Canadian hog sector through biosecurity best management practices, research and long term risk management solutions.

Performance Indicators:
A National Biosecurity Best Management Practices Standard is in place;
Percentage of research projects that are progressing on schedule; and
A long term risk management solution is established by the industry.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Planned spending for 2010-11 to 2012-13 reflects only the funding presented in the 2010-11 Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU). It does not include any additional amounts that may be brought into the Department's reference levels.

Strategic Outcome: A competitive agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector that proactively manages risk.

Program Activity: Food Safety and Biosecurity Risk Management Systems

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Plum Pox Eradication Program (PPEP) (Voted)

Start date: April 19, 2004

End date: March 31, 2011

Description:

The Plum Pox Eradication Program (PPEP) provides funding for activities aimed at eradicating the Plum Pox Virus (PPV) from the Niagara region of Canada while ensuring the viability of the tender fruit industry (peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines). The bulk of the funding supports an extensive survey of tender fruit orchards, research and financial assistance for tender fruit producers whose orchards are affected by the PPV. The program also includes an asset loss compensation component. This seven-year program (2004-05 to 2010-11) is a follow-up of the original three-year program (2001-02 to 2003-04).

The program is jointly funded by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC), the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA).

Website (Canadian Food Inspection Agency)

Expected results:
Eradication of the Plum Pox Virus in Canada while maintaining the viability of the industry.

Performance Indicator: Number of positive trees and orchards identified.
Target: 15% reduction in Plum Pox Virus incidences annually between 2004-2011.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Planned spending for 2010-11 to 2012-13 reflects only the funding presented in the 2010-11 Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU). It does not include any additional amounts that may be brought into the Department's reference levels.

Strategic Outcome: A competitive agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector that proactively manages risk.

Program Activity: Trade and Market Development

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Canadian Cattlemen's Association Legacy Fund (Statutory)

Start date: June 27, 2005

End date: March 31, 2015

Description:
The purpose of the Canadian Cattlemen's Association Legacy Fund is to support to the Canadian beef sector to develop markets for beef cattle genetics and beef and beef products in a post-BSE environment. Grants totalling $50 million over 10 years will be provided.

Expected results:
Growth in traditional, existing, new and emerging markets for Canadian beef and genetics products; and to maximize the total value realized by the Canadian beef and cattle genetics industry through optimization of genetics products values.

Performance Indicators:
- change in consumer recognition and perceptions of Canadian beef and products (measured by consumer surveys, benchmark studies);
- increase in total beef export volumes to key markets; and
- change in international and target country market share.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Planned spending for 2010-11 to 2012-13 reflects only the funding presented in the 2010-11 Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU). It does not include any additional amounts that may be brought into the Department's reference levels.

Strategic Outcome: A competitive agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector that proactively manages risk.

Program Activity: Trade and Market Development

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contributions to transform Canada's Strengths into Domestic and Global Success (Voted) (related funding is found under Grant payments for the Organisation for the Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (Voted))

Start date: April 1, 2008

End date: March 31, 2013

Description:
he programming for "Transforming Canada's strengths into Domestic and Global Success" is composed of the following:

The AgriMarketing Program provides a platform to equip industry, including small and medium-sized enterprises, for success in global markets. AgriMarketing cost-shares with industry associations for international market development, export promotion activities and in-depth research to form long-term international strategies that contribute and build on the Canada Brand.

The Enabling Research for Competitive Agriculture (ERCA) Program supports research, complements AAFC policy analysis and development, and contributes to a more informed policy dialogue by engaging the external policy research community on priority issues that can be used by industry groups and producers to assist them in identifying new opportunities, markets and ways to enhance productivity and improve competitiveness to improve their success in global and domestic markets.

A small component of the ERCA initiative provides a grant to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to enhance research on priority issues for Canada in the global context through collaborative activities, thereby providing a unique, global perspective on Canada's competitiveness.

Expected results:
AgriMarketing Program:
- Contribution Agreements with industry associations, alliances and technical marketing institutions;
- Increased capacity of industry associations to deliver market development and branding projects;
- Increased effectiveness of market development and branding projects undertaken by industry associations; and
- Enhanced market opportunities for Canadian agriculture and food producers in key international markets.

Performance measures and indicators are:
- Number of agreements implemented annually;
- Percentage of market development and branding projects undertaken by industry associations outside Canada with the program funding as compared to promotional activities undertaken without the program funding; and
- Percentage increase in exports for AgriMarketing Program supported sectors with a long-term international strategy.

ERCA Contribution Program:
- The establishment of "communities of experts" with broad representation from universities and other institutions;
- Broadly disseminated research results that are used by industry and government to enhance competitiveness and prosperity;
- Strengthened policy research capacity addressing priority issues for the sector;
- Participation of industry and representatives from other departmental initiatives such as the Value Chain Roundtables (VCRT) and Agri-foresighting at ERCA events and workshops;
- Publication of research reports, Policy Briefs, professional journal articles and newspaper articles by ERCA members; and
- A large pool of graduate students knowledgeable in agricultural policy from which to recruit at AAFC.

Performance measures and indicators are:
- The number of researchers involved in ERCA;
- The number of meetings/workshops/seminars and Parliamentary Committees where ERCA policy research results are presented for use by government, industry and other stakeholders;
- The number of graduate students recruited into agriculture programs at universities in Canada through ERCA;
- The number of participants at ERCA events from industry, VCRT or Agriforesighting, government and other organizations;
- The number of research reports/policy briefs/ professional journal articles and newspaper articles published by ERCA members;
- The number of graduate students who graduate from their programs.

ERCA - Grant to the OECD:
- Broadly disseminated research results that are used by industry and government to enhance competitiveness and prosperity;
- Enhanced economic and policy research capacity addressing priority issues for the Canadian agriculture and agri-food sector in a global context;
- Increased information for the use of Provinces and Territories on key issues impacting the sector; and
- A further influence on the research agenda of the OECD in order to broaden policy research to include topics of importance for Canada.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Planned spending for 2010-11 to 2012-13 reflects only the funding presented in the 2010-11 Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU). It does not include any additional amounts that may be brought into the Department's reference levels.

Strategic Outcome: An innovative agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector.

Program Activity: Science, Innovation and Adoption

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contributions to support the Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (Voted)

Start date: May 28, 2009

End date: On-Going, subject to Evaluation of relevance and effectiveness by March 31, 2014.

Description:
The Canadian Agricultural Adaptation Program (CAAP)'s objective is to facilitate the agriculture, agri-food, and agri-based products sector's ability to seize opportunities, to respond to new and emerging issues, and to pathfind and pilot solutions to new and ongoing issues in order to help it adapt and remain competitive. Launched as a successor to the Advancing Canadian Agriculture and Agri-Food (ACAAF) program, CAAP will continue to support industry-led initiatives at the national, regional and multi-regional levels.

Expected results:
Industry implements strategies to respond to emerging issues and opportunities;
Conversion of applied research into commercial products;
Adoption of innovative,value-added products, processes and technologies by the sector; and Improved competitiveness of the sector.

Performance Indicators:
Number of strategies to respond to emerging issues developed and implemented by industry;
Number of commercial products created;
Number of innovative, value-added products, processes and technologies adopted by the sector;
Number of projects resulting in: reduction of producing and processing costs; improved product quality; improved market share or preservation of market share.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Planned spending for 2010-11 to 2012-13 reflects only the funding presented in the 2010-11 Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU). It does not include any additional amounts that may be brought into the Department's reference levels.

Strategic Outcome: An innovative agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector.

Program Activity: Science, Innovation and Adoption

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Agricultural Bioproducts Innovation Program (Voted)

Start date: December 14, 2006

End date: March 31, 2011

Description:
The Agricultural Bioproducts Innovation Program (ABIP) is an initiative designed to strengthen the capacity of Canadian science providers and industry through the creation of networks for research, technology development, and commercialization of agricultural bioproducts and bioprocesses.

Expected results:
Increase in Research and Development network activities for innovative technologies, techniques, processes, tools and strategies.

Performance Indicator: Number of technology transfer vehicles (such as licenses, demonstrated applications in industry, industry attestations, articles in commodity or trade magazines etc.) related to new products, new uses and new markets for agri-based biomass resulting from the networks that have been established.
Target: 18 technology transfer vehicles

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Planned spending for 2010-11 to 2012-13 reflects only the funding presented in the 2010-11 Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU). It does not include any additional amounts that may be brought into the Department's reference levels.

Strategic Outcome: An innovative agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector.

Program Activity: Science, Innovation and Adoption

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Agri-Opportunities Program (New Opportunities for Agriculture Initiatives) (Voted)

Start date: December 14, 2006

End date: March 31, 2011

Description:
The Agri-Opportunities program is a $134 million program, ending March 2011, that focuses on new innovative value-added agricultural, agri-food and agri-based products, services or processes that are currently not commercially produced or available in Canada and that are ready to be introduced into the marketplace. The program provides repayable contributions for commercialization projects that are expected to increase market opportunities for the Canadian agricultural industry across the value chain and to increase demand for primary agricultural products.

Expected results:
To promote new opportunities for agriculture by enabling the sector to diversify or move into promising new markets with prospects for long term sustainability.

Performance Indicators:
- The number of facilities established, modernized or expanded (9-13 facilities);
- The number of new products, processes and services that are brought to market (11-16 products, processes or services);
- Increase in knowledge and skills of recipient organizations
• number of people with increased knowledge and innovative capacity (38-64 people)
• number of enterprises with increased knowledge and capacity (19-25 organizations);
- Increase in demand for primary agricultural products (targets still to be determined);
- The number of funded enterprises with new revenue streams (7-10 organizations);
- Increase in level and quality of employment for recipient organizations
• number of employees hired in funded enterprises (70-95 overall)
• number of indirect jobs supported by activities of funded enterprises
• level of wages paid relative to sector average (5 percent above average)
- The number of funded enterprises participating in value added industries (7-10 enterprises); and
- The number of farmers participating farther up the value-chain (5-7 projects led by farmers).

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Planned spending for 2010-11 to 2012-13 reflects only the funding presented in the 2010-11 Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU). It does not include any additional amounts that may be brought into the Department's reference levels.

Strategic Outcome: An innovative agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector.

Program Activity: Science, Innovation and Adoption

Name of Transfer Payment Program: EcoAgriculture Biofuels Capital Initiative (Voted)

Start date: March 29, 2007

End date: March 31, 2011
(Proposed extension to March 31, 2013)

Description:
The ecoAgriculture Biofuels Capital initiative (ecoABC) is a four-year, $200 million federal initiative that provides conditionally repayable contributions towards the construction or expansion of biofuel facilities that have equity investments from farmers and use agricultural feedstock. The initiative, which is part of the federal renewable fuels strategy, is providing an opportunity for farmers to benefit from the emerging renewable fuels industry while helping the government to achieve its targets for renewable fuel content in gasoline and diesel fuel.

Expected results:
To provide agricultural producers with an opportunity for equity investment in biofuel production facilities, and to facilitate achieving the federal government's target of renewable fuel content equal to 5% of the gasoline pool by 2010 and 2% in diesel and heating oil by 2012 through domestic production.

Specific results include:
- new biofuels facilities are built;
- increased (domestic) ethanol production;
- broadened economic base of communities where facilities are built; and
- increased and diversified off-farm revenues for producers.

Performance Indicators:
- Number of new facilites built or expanded for renewable fuels (8-12 facilities);
- Change in annual production of ethanol and biodiesel by funded facilities (overall increase in production of 1-1.5 billion litres of renewable fuel);
- Number of new jobs in funded facilities (200-360 overall);
- Increased spending in communities with funded facilities (specific targets determined later); and
- Change in primary producers' revenue from investment ($6-12 million annually).

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Planned spending for 2010-11 to 2012-13 reflects only the funding presented in the 2010-11 Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU). It does not include any additional amounts that may be brought into the Department's reference levels.

Strategic Outcome: An innovative agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector.

Program Activity: Science, Innovation and Adoption

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contributions to accelerate the Pace of Innovation and Facilitate the Adoption of New Technologies (Voted)

Start date: April 1, 2008

End date: March 31, 2013

Description:
The program is designed to accelerate industry led innovation activities leading to the development and commercialization of new products, practices and processes by supporting the required academia, industry and government foresight and applied science, technology and development activities.

The program initiatives are designed to work systematically along the three phases of the innovation continuum; they are:
Discovery Phase: the creation of new knowledge and ideas;
Pre-commercialization Phase: the further development of ideas into new technologies to address challenges and opportunities; and
Commercialization, Adoption and Marketing Phase: the realization of economic and social benefits from the technologies that generate new practices, products and processes.

Expected results:
Accelerated pace of innovation and new technologies adopted.
Performance Indicator: Percent increase in number of applied agri-science research and development projects.
Target: 400% increase in number of applied agri-science research and development projects by March 2013.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Planned spending for 2010-11 to 2012-13 reflects only the funding presented in the 2010-11 Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU). It does not include any additional amounts that may be brought into the Department's reference levels.

Strategic Outcome: An innovative agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector.

Program Activity: Agri-Business Development

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contributions to enable Competitive Enterprises and Sectors (Voted)

Start date: April 1, 2008

End date: March 31, 2013

Description:
Agri-Business Development provides support for provincial and territorial activities and to national organizations to increase the use of sound business management practices by producers and agri-businesses to enable businesses to be profitable.

Eligible programs and initiatives equip producers and agri-businesses with the skills, knowledge and expertise needed to understand their businesses' financial situation, assess opportunities, respond to change, and realize business goals. It also enables agri-businesses to be profitable and invest where needed to manage the natural resource base sustainably, and produce and market safe food and other products.

Expected results:
Increased understanding of the factors most critical to business success by businesses in the sector.
Performance Indicator: Percentage of participating businesses with an increased understanding of the factors most critical to the success of their business.
Target: 70% of participants will have an increased understanding of critical success factors for their business. This target will be met by March 2013.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Planned spending for 2010-11 to 2012-13 reflects only the funding presented in the 2010-11 Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU). It does not include any additional amounts that may be brought into the Department's reference levels.

Strategic Outcome: An innovative agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector.

Program Activity: Agri-Business Development

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Orchards and Vineyards Transition Program (Voted)

Start date: October 25, 2007

End date: March 31, 2011

Description:
This Orchards and Vineyards Transition program (OVTP) funds plant removal which is the very first step towards replanting orchards and vineyards or planting other crops to help producers compete in the changing global markets. The program also responds to the market pressure by funding strategic planning activities which will increase the industry's knowledge and help the industry make decisions. The program operates in British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

Expected results:
To ensure acreage is readily available for planting of more marketable crops, and to develop an improved understanding of the opportunities for the orchards and vineyards sector. It is expected that OVTP will result in fruit trees and grape vines being removed from 6,500 hectares and this land being made available for the planting of more marketable varieties of tree fruits, grapes and other crops. This will encourage producers to make the adjustments necessary to become more competitive.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Planned spending for 2010-11 to 2012-13 reflects only the funding presented in the 2010-11 Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU). It does not include any additional amounts that may be brought into the Department's reference levels.

Strategic Outcome: An innovative agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector.

Program Activity: Agri-Business Development

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contributions to strengthen the competitiveness of Canada's red meat packing and processing industry (Voted)

Start date: June 4, 2009

End date: March 31, 2012

Description:
The Slaughter Improvement Program (SIP) provides eligible red meat packers with repayable federal contributions to implement sound business plans aimed at reducing costs, increasing revenues, or otherwise improving the operations of federally-inspected packing plants. Supporting processing activities will help contribute to the viability of related slaughter capacity.

Recipients must also be involved or present a business plan to be involved in the slaughter of red meat. They must be federally inspected red meat packing and processing plants; provincially inspected plants implementing projects to become federally inspected to market their products beyond provincial boundaries; or legal entities planning to establish a federally inspected plant in a region where a deficit in slaughter capacity is constraining sector growth. The program is applications-based, and functions under a request for applications approach.

The Slaughter Improvement Program is a Canada's Economic Action Plan (CEAP) Initiative.

Expected results:
The SIP will lead to the following outcomes: operational improvements among red meat packers and processors; increased productivity, revenues and/or innovation, and/or reduced costs among red meat packers and processors; and added slaughter capacity in deficit regions.

Performance indicators may include but are not limited to the following: amount of program funds invested by red meat packers and processors in operational improvements; percentage of recipients that increase their productivity, revenues and/or innovation, and/or reduce their costs; and number of regions that fill in their capacity deficit.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Planned spending for 2010-11 to 2012-13 reflects only the funding presented in the 2010-11 Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU). It does not include any additional amounts that may be brought into the Department's reference levels.

Strategic Outcome: An innovative agriculture, agri-food and agri-based products sector.

Program Activity: Rural & Co-operatives Development

Name of Transfer Payment Program: Contributions for Rural and Co-operatives Development (Voted)

Start date: April 1, 2008

End date: March 31, 2013

Description:
The programming for Rural and Co-operatives Development covers the following two initiatives:

Rural development programming, whose objective is to support local, regional, and/or national stakeholders to develop collaborative activities that contribute to the engagement, knowledge development, and knowledge transfer activities of the Canadian Rural Partnership (CRP).

Co-operative Development Initiative (CDI) which provides support for the development capacity of the co-op sector and funds innovative co-operative projects in public policy priority areas.

Expected results:
Rural development
New economic activities are being developed in rural communities.
Measured by: The number of communities in 20 selected rural regions where new economic activities are implemented as a result of CRP collaborative activities.
Target: 30 communities by March 31, 2013

Co-operative Development Initiative
Canadians are better able to utilize the co-operative model to meet their economic and social needs.
Measured by: Number of co-operatives created, which have received CDI support.
Target: 150 co-operatives by March 31, 2013.

Summary of the 3 Year Plan: http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1174061891718&lang=eng

Note:
Planned spending for 2010-11 to 2012-13 reflects only the funding presented in the 2010-11 Annual Reference Level Update (ARLU). It does not include any additional amounts that may be brought into the Department's reference levels.