Value
Maximum of $10,000Description
Producer – Fragile Land Retirement provide support to producers with fragile lands, including severely eroded knolls and compacted headlands, that were annually cropped within the past two years. Applicants must demonstrate a long-term commitment (at least 15 years) to retiring land in order to access support.
Eligible Applicants
Applicant must have completed:
- A verified, 4th Edition Environmental Farm Plan
- A site sketch (hand-drawn or computer-generated) or AgMaps output showing the proposed project location
Eligible Expenses
- Seeding fragile land sites to permanent vegetative cover including establishing native trees or shrubs, native grasses or native wildflowers to stabilize sites
- Site preparation
- Purchase and planting of native or non-invasive introduced species of trees, shrubs, grasses, legumes or wildflowers
- Tree planting techniques must adhere to practices that would typically be advocated by a professional forester
- Total eligible costs for tree purchase and planting is capped at $50 per tree
- Weed control system, including mulch
- Activities that are designed to manage and treat runoff leaving agricultural land and reaching watercourses
- Constructed wetlands that collect and treat tile drain water or surface waters from agricultural land before entering a watercourse or drain
- Enhancing standing inlets to slow movement of water from field and increase infiltration time
- Installing biofilters
- Installing vegetated grass strips on the contour to reduce velocity of water flow and increase infiltration
- In-kind contributions
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
