2023 Canada-Alberta Drought Livestock Assistance initiative
The 2023 Canada-Alberta Drought Livestock Assistance initiative provided compensation for the extraordinary costs incurred by Alberta’s livestock producers due to dry conditions and extreme high temperatures in 2023. Applications closed February 22, 2024.
Livestock producers in eligible regions who altered their usual grazing practices due to drought conditions for more than 21 days this season were eligible to apply for financial support to cover losses incurred to manage and maintain female breeding animals such as cattle, bison, horses, elk, sheep, goats, alpacas, yak, musk ox, deer, water buffalo and llamas. A minimum of 15 animals per type of livestock was required.
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Drought Livestock Assistance Q&As
Eligible Municipalities
AgriRecovery is a federal-provincial-territorial disaster relief framework to producers with the extraordinary costs associated with recovering from disaster situations. This program is not intended to cover income or production losses, recurring disaster events or replace the need for multi-year strategies to help industries adjust to long-term realities of a disaster. Eligible costs will be supported on the 60/40 federal/provincial cost-shared basis outlined under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership.
