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Dairy Direct Payment Program

March 31, 2025

Value

$250 million will be made available up to March 31, 2025.

Description

The objective of the program is to support dairy producers as a result of market access commitments made under recent international trade agreements.

Eligible Applicants

  • You’re a producer of cow’s milk with a valid dairy quota license registered with a provincial milk marketing board or agency as of August 31, 2024
  • You’re an individual and/or legal entity capable of entering into legally binding agreements or contracts (includes sole proprietor businesses, partnerships and corporations)
  • You register by the deadline March 31, 2025

Eligible Expenses

The amount of the quota held according to the provincial milk marketing board or agency will be considered final. In the event:

  • of a whole farm lease (where 100% of the quota is leased from one producer to another for an extended period of time and is not related to a catastrophe such as a fire, sickness of the herd, or of the producer) the lessee will receive the program payment. This does not apply in the case of partial leases
  • where a producer temporarily leases their own quota or a portion of their own quota to another producer for reasons such as fire, illness with herd or illness of owner, the owner of the quota will receive the program payment

Deadline Date

Open until March 31, 2025.

Contact

Contact Name: Dairy Direct Payment Program

Phone Number: 1-877-246-4682

E-mail Address: info.direct.p@cdc-ccl.gc.ca

Website: https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/programs/dairy-direct-payment

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