NEW: 2025-26 Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador
AgriRecovery Forage Assistance Initiative
Eligible dairy, beef, sheep and goat farmers in Newfoundland and Labrador who were affected by widespread drought conditions in 2025 can apply for disaster relief to help purchase and transport animal feed under the 2025-26 Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador AgriRecovery Forage Assistance Initiative.
Deadline to apply: March 2, 2026
AgriRecovery provides targeted financial assistance to help Canadian agricultural producers pay for the extraordinary costs associated with recovering from disaster situations, like the drought conditions in 2025 that significantly impacted forage production.
AgriRecovery initiatives are cost-shared on a 60:40 basis between the Federal Government and participating provinces or territories, as outlined under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (Sustainable CAP). Newfoundland and Labrador’s dairy, beef cattle, and sheep/goat producers rely heavily on forage crops to feed livestock.
Program guide and applications for AgriRecovery:
AgriRecovery Forage Assistance Initiative Guide
AgriRecovery Forage Assistance Initiative Application
AgriRecovery Forage Assistance Initiative Application FILLABLE
For program information, email AFAI@gov.nl.ca or call 709-637-2077.
Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (Sustainable CAP)
Applications are open
The Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (Sustainable CAP) is a five-year (2023-2028), $3.5-billion initiative that aims to strengthen the competitiveness, innovation, and resiliency of Canada’s agriculture, agri‐food and agri‐based products sector.
Sustainable CAP includes $1 billion in federal programs and $2.5 billion in cost-shared initiatives. Cost-shared initiatives are funded 60 per cent federally and 40 per cent provincially/territorially for programs that are designed and delivered by provinces and territories.
Key priorities focus on:
- Climate Change and Environment: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to the impacts of climate change.
Science, Research, and Innovation: Supporting science and innovation, and creating opportunities to improve long-term sustainability, resiliency, and competitiveness in the provincial agriculture sector.
Market Development and Trade: Supporting expansion of domestic and international market development opportunities, and meeting the evolving challenges of an interconnected, globalized marketplace.
Building Sector Capacity, Growth and Competitiveness: Supporting economic growth, driving domestic market and export activity, and enhancing food self-sufficiency and local food capacity.
Resiliency and Public Trust: Supporting the sector as it continues to face significant risks, and building public trust in the province’s agriculture sector.
Newfoundland and Labrador’s program initiatives aim to:
- Improve environmental performance, adapt to climate change, and reduce GHG emissions;
- Support innovation, secondary processing, and public trust;
- Promote marketing and sector growth; and
- Enhance sector resiliency, diversity, equity and inclusion.
Sustainable CAP builds on the success of the previous five-year Canadian Agricultural Partnership (2018-2023), which funded more than 700 agricultural initiatives in the province. Applicants may be eligible for an advance payment for an approved Sustainable CAP project, if the advance request is received by Sustainable CAP Administration prior to December 31st of any fiscal year (April 01 to March 31). Requests for advance payments received after December 31st of any fiscal year will be denied.
Program Guide
Payments
Sustainable CAP 2023-24 Payments
Applications
Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change
Agriculture Growth and Secondary Processing
Indigenous Agriculture and Food Systems
Indigenous Agriculture and Food Systems
Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program
Applications are open for the Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program
The Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program (RALP) aims to help producers conserve and enhance the resiliency of agricultural landscapes by accelerating adoption of land use and management practices. Specifically, the goal is to maximize multiple ecological goods and services (EG&S) for farms and regional pastures. EG&S are the benefits society derives from healthy functioning ecosystems and includes the maintenance and provision of healthy soil and water resources, wildlife habitat and biodiversity, and adapting to the impacts of climate change.
In Newfoundland and Labrador, RALP will focus on providing support for:
- Activities that decrease the amount of marginal and fragile lands used for cropping;
- Activities that maintain healthy, strong soils while naturally mitigating the impacts of climate change on farm;
- Agri-environmental best management practices that seek to increase and enhance multiple ecological goods and services; and
- Awareness and knowledge transfer, extension services, program development, and product development related to eligible RALP activities and outreach.
Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program Guide
Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change Program Application (RALP)
2023-24 Program Payments in Newfoundland and Labrador
Premises Identification Program
Producers are required to participate in the Premises Identification Program to be eligible for funding through Sustainable CAP.
Premises identification is an essential part of a traceability system. It links animals and food products to geographic locations for better management of animal health and food safety emergencies. Newfoundland and Labrador’s premises identification system maps out parcels of land where animals and food products are grown, kept, assembled or disposed of. In a crisis, such as a disease outbreak or natural emergency, the Premises Identification Program system can quickly identify and notify individuals who may be affected.
Supplemental Documents
- AGPAL Program and Service Finder
- Sustainable CAP Farm Management Specialist Contact List
- Sustainable CAP Financial Officer Contact List