AgriRecovery supporting British Columbia farmers and ranchers with extraordinary costs

October 20, 2023 - Victoria, British Columbia - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

The 2023 Canada-British Columbia Wildfire and Drought AgriRecovery Initiative will cover extraordinary costs, and the program terms and conditions define the support limits and eligibility, including:

• Individualized support is provided for extraordinary feed costs due to the loss of access to pasture. These payments will be based on a maximum regional assistance limit and confirmed through receipts for purchases of additional feed:
  
  • up to 70% support for transportation costs to help farmers and ranchers who moved livestock to feed and water through the recovery period
  • up to 70% support for extraordinary quality feed testing for additionally purchased forage
  • in situations where producers downsized their breeding livestock, support of up to $160 per animal is available for extraordinary replacement costs
• In situations in which producers have been affected by wildfire, the following supports are available:
  • where Crown range or pasture is lost due to wildfire, specific support for alternative grazing requirements
  • up to $80 per head to re-establish safe winter-feeding facilities and general cleanup
  • up to 70% of extraordinary wildfire related costs for:
    • livestock veterinary services
    • mustering of livestock
    • mortality of breeding animals
    • critical irrigation and infrastructure repairs that were not insurable
    • labour costs to repair private livestock fences
    • reseeding and re-establishing tame livestock forage damaged by wildfires
  • Up to 70% of the extraordinary costs are available for B.C. beekeepers and honey producers to replace lost bee colonies, apiaries and equipment

Related products

• News release: Federal-provincial support helping disaster-affected farmers
• Backgrounder: Provincial support for farmers and ranchers
• Backgrounder: AgriRecovery framework