Value
Maximum of $25,000Description
Producer – Plant Pest Monitoring and Management Tools and Treatment Equipment supports projects that focus on reducing biosecurity risks into, out of, and within high-risk areas of the operation, in a measurable or proven way.
Eligible Applicants
- Producers who wish to incorporate tools and equipment for monitoring, management and treatment into plant health biosecurity plans to prevent, identify and limit the introduction and spread of pests.
- Completed a Crop and Horticulture Biosecurity Workshop
- Completed a farm-wide assessment against national biosecurity standards or a commodity-specific plant health/pest risk assessment, that supports need for the project
- Assessment may be completed by the applicant or by a qualified third party, such as certified crop advisor
- Assessment requirements can be found at ontariosoilcrop.org
Eligible Expenses
- On-farm management tools and equipment, including:
- Using new technologies to modify environmental conditions or farming practices to reduce pest development and spread
- Innovative application technologies that reduces environmental risk and worker exposure
- On-farm monitoring and diagnostic tools, including:
- Monitoring equipment (e.g., lures, traps, sticky cards, hand lens, sweep nets, microscope, Smartphone apps for diagnostics and monitoring)
- Environmental data loggers
- Drone or remote sensing technology
- Reference materials
- Pest modeling software
- Modification of existing air seeders or vacuum planters to install dust deflectors to direct exhausted air from the planter or seeder vacuum fan toward the ground including:
- Purchase and installation of factory-made or ready-made dust deflector units based on equipment manufacturer’s specifications
- Purchase and installation of custom-made dust deflectors to modify existing seed planting equipment
- 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
