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a maximum of an additional $4,500.
For Environmental Protection projects,
,the grant rate remains at 40 percent but
the maximum will be raised by an addi-
tional.$5,000.
B. Ontario Pork Industry Improvement
Program (OPIIP)
. The new 5 -year program is designed to im-
prove the competitive position of Ontario
producers and encourage improvements
in the production and- financial manage-
ment areas of individual operations.
1. Farmer Grants
- five-year program from April 1, 1986
- to March 31, 1991.
- must have an average of at least 20
sows or market at least 300 market weight
hogs annually.
- production analysis and financial
analysis — $100 for each analysis each
year.
- ventilation grant — up to $1500.
- productivity and quality improve-
ment grant on facilities — up to $1500.
- grants are available for A.I., rodent
control, private veterinary herd health
program, tuition fees and feed analysis.
2. Research and Development - grants
for additional swine research.
• 3. Pork Advisors - additional Ministry
staff are hired for the five-year period to
service the program and provide addi-
tional advisory capacity.
C. The Ontario Red Meat Plan
It is a five-year quality and productivity
incentive -plan for the cow -calf, stocker -
slaughter and sheep producers from April
1, 1984 to March 31, 1989. It provides grants
for weighing livestock, livestock handling
equipment, stales, watering equipment,
etc: There are additional financial incen-
tives in 'herd health, forage testing,
preconditioning, enterprise analysis,
estrus control, pregnancy examinations
and grading.
There are three components:
1. Cow -Calf Development
-The Beef .Herd Improvement Pro-
gram BHIP i provides for weighing incen-
tives to be used to cull low producing cows,
select replacement heifers, evaluate herd
sires and measure the effects of manage-
ment practices. Producers must be enroll-
ed before calves are born and must have
calves, weighed in order to be eligible for
the weighing or incentive grants.
2. Stocker and Slaughter Cattle
Development -
- The Weighing and Management Pro-
=grarr1 provides for weighing incentives to
assist in the monitoring and management
-procedures in feedlot and pasture situa-
tions. Producers must enroll and monitor
cattle weights in order to be eligible for
any grant inpthe program.
3. Sheep Flock Improvement Program
( Ontario R.O.P. )
-Producers must enroll in this pro-
gram and weigh lambs to be eligible for
any grant in this program. All sheep must
be identified in the flock so that indexes
generated can be used to select
replacements and for culling.
D. Ontario Processing Peach Program -
fifty percent of the cost of nursery stock
for the planting of clingstone peaches.
E. Ontario Greenhouse Energy Grant -
up to $8:50 per square metre to $34,000
maximum to renovate older greenhouses
with energy efficient technology.
F. Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Quality
Improvement Program - forty percent of
the cost up to $50,000 for post-harvest cool-
ing, conditioning and storage equipment.
1 G. (Thtarii Farm Tax Reduction Pro-
gram - refund of 60 percent of municipal
taxes. Questions, including interpretation
of the program terms, may be answered
by contacting: Subsidies Branch, Ministry
of Municipal Affirs, 777.Bay Street, 12th
Floor, Toronto, M5G 2E5. Phone r. 416
585-6565. Indicate property roll number( s
and municipality with any
correspondence.
Financial Protection
A. Crop Insurance
A federal -provincial crop insurance
program is now available for most major
crops. The program. is designed to help
stop losses; not guarantee profits. Highly
levered growers cannot - afford to be
without crop insurance. In fact, their
lenders often -insist on it.
B. Stabilization Programs
1. Federal Stablization
The;'federal government operates the
main stabilization program. When prices
fall below 90 percent of the five-year
average, plus indexed changes in produc-
tion costs, a payout is announced. For in-
stance, torn and soybeans are two main
crops in Ontario for which federal
payments apply in 1986. In fact, interim
payments were made. There are other
crops such as apples which receive
assistance by petition.
2. Provincial Stablilization -
Ontario's program is an insurance
type of program covering- the difference
betweeen 90 and 95 percent of the adjusted
five-year average. Opportunities are
available to apply for apples, corn, soy-
beans, white hears, winter wheat, barley,
canola, oats and fresh market potatoes
with different registration deadlines.
3. Special Canadian Grains Program
This federal'project is a one billion
dollar aid program to give relief to cash
crop producers hurt by low prices from the
current trade war. Payment is based on a
producer's 1986 seeded acreage of a crop
times county average yield times
assistance rate.
Farm Credit Advisors or commis-
sioners for taking oaths (lawyers,
notaries, some reeves; court officials and
some township clerks) are able to certify
applications. .
3. Tripartite Stablization -
This new insurance -type- plan is a
federal -provincial program. The premium
is shared equally between the farmer and
the two -levels of government. Over the
long run, the farmer should get $3 back for
. every $1 he pays in premiums. It is set up
as a ten-year program subject to renewal.
For Ontario's beef, pork and sheep pro
ducers, there will hP no stabilization pro-
grams. For many clients, this will require
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