Environmental Farm Plan

Our Food. Our Farm. Our Future.

 

 

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Manitoba's EFP

Environmental farm planning enables Manitoba to be a producer of safe, high quality food in a sustainable manner. Since 2004, Manitoba has offered the Environmental Farm Plan (EFP) as a voluntary assessment tool for producers. Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) assist with EFP delivery to maintain producers' confidentiality.  Environmental farm planning helps farm managers identify agri-environmental assets and risks, develop an action plan to help mitigate risks, meet sustainable marketing requirements and access agri-environmental cost-share programming.  Environmental Farm Planning also provides an element of public trust both provincially and federally and is currently supported through the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership.
  

 

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By implementing an EFP, producers are able to improve air, water and soil quality while conserving biodiversity on Manitoba farmland. Environmental farm planning contributes to environmental protection and conservation, and makes our province's agricultural products commodities more marketable to environmentally conscious consumers.

 
 

Beneficial Management Practices

Under the Sustainable Canadian Agriculture Partnership (Sustainable CAP), there are a number of cost-shared agri-environmental incentives associated with the EFP.
Program
Funding Stream
BMP #
BMP Name
Eligible Applicants
Cost Share Ratio
(gov:applicants)
Funding Cap
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE MANITOBA (SAM)
 
Applications accepted until 11:59 pm on June 13, 2023.
1100
Reduced Tillage Intensity
Primary Producers
30:70
$80,000
1200
Low Disturbance Placement of Seed & Fertilizer
Primary Producers
30:70
$140,000
1300
Preventing Soil Compaction
Primary Producers
Licensed Commercial Manure Applicators
50:50
$75,000
1400
Reduced Pesticide Use
Primary Producers                 Custom Pesticide Applicators
50:50
$55,000
1500
Soil Landscape Restoration
Primary Producers
50:50
$30,000
1600
Perennial Cover for Sensitive Lands
Primary Producers
50:50
$10,000
1700
Hazardous Products Storage
Primary Producers
50:50
$25,000
2100
Enhanced Feed Efficiency
Primary Producers
50:50
$160,000
2200
Improved Manure Application
Primary Producers
Licensed Commercial Manure Applicators
50:50
$855,000
2300
Solid-Liquid Separation of Manure
Primary Producers
50:50
$415,000
2400
Improved Manure Transport
Primary Producers
Licensed Commercial Manure Applicator
50:50
$500,000
2500
In-Barn Air Quality Treatment
Primary Producers
75:25
$525,000
2600
Limiting Thermal Stress on Livestock
Primary Producers
50:50
$85,000
2700
Composting
Primary Producers
50:50
$260,000
4100
Irrigation Efficiency
Primary Producers
30:70
$95,000
4200
Fertigation
Primary Producers
30:70
$10,000
4300
Drainage Water Management
Primary Producers
30:70
$145,000
4400
Water Quality
Primary Producers
50:50
$50,000
4500
Runoff Control
Primary Producers
50:50
$125,000
4600
Water Use Efficiency
Primary Producers
50:50
$75,000
4700
Water Supply
Primary Producers
50:50
$15,000
RESILIENT AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES PROGRAM (RALP)
 
 
Applications accepted until 11:59 pm on June 12, 2023.
Grazing Management Planning
ACL Forage Leaseholders
 
AMCP
 
First Nations & Metis
 
Primary producers outside of Watershed District Boundaries
75:25
$15,000 per project
Rotational Grazing Infrastructure
Grassland Rejuvenation
Establishment & maintenance of shelterbelts
 
AMCP
 
First Nations & Metis
 
Primary producers outside of Watershed District Boundaries
75:25
$15,000 per project
Planting trees/shrubs on marginal land
 
Silvopasture

 

 

EFP Farm Gate Signs

 

 EFP farmgate sign.

EFP Farm Gate Signs are available to producers who have completed the Environmental Farm Planning Process.  The sign acknowledges your efforts and encourages others to follow your example of using environmentally responsible and sustainable practices on your farm.  A copy of your Statement of Completion is required to obtain a sign.   If you are interested in receiving a sign, please email ManitobaEFP@gov.mb.ca with "FARM SIGN" in the subject line and further arrangements will be made. 
 
 

 

For more information, contact your local Manitoba Agriculture Office.