Value
Maximum of $5,000Description
Processor – Education, Training, Assessment and Planning (Animal Health) supports projects that focuses on first-time activities to improve animal health and welfare.
Eligible Applicants
Abattoirs, including new processor businesses (new entrants), that are planning first-time activities for animal health education or training, or to complete operational assessments and plans, with a qualified third party.
Preference is currently given to projects that support provincially licensed abattoirs.
Eligible Expenses
This Project Category is for first-time activities:
- Education and training from a third-party institution or consultant on topics related to the adoption of the national biosecurity standards, a commodity-specific risk management program, or animal welfare practices and procedures related to national Codes of Practice for the care and handling of farm animals
- Operational assessments, conducted by a qualified third party such as a licensed veterinarian or certified animal welfare auditor, against:
- National biosecurity standards, or practices and procedures
- Commodity-specific risk management program
- National Codes of Practice for the care and handling of farm animals
- National commodity-specific farm animal care program
- Market-driven animal welfare program (e.g., North American Meat Institute Audit)
- Qualified third-party services to provide an initial operational plan (e.g., disease response plan, operation specific procedures, nutrient management plan or strategy)
Deadline Date
Please click the link indicated below for update.Contact
Contact Name: Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
Phone Number: 1-877-424-1300
E-mail Address: ag.info.omafra@ontario.ca