The OSCIA website www.ontariosoilcrop.org should be on your desktop favourites!!
Please check your environmental farm plan workshop – is it the 4th edition? Most of the programs OSCIA delivers are required to have a copy of the 4th edition EFP certificate attached to the application. Do not assume every program guide is the same – they are not! Be ready – have your ducks in a row, so to speak – don’t miss the deadline to submit your application OR the deadline to submit your claim!! The program guides are available to read, even when the program is not open to accept applications. They give you a chance to check out what that program and category are about. You can subscribe to receive emails when programs are announced. The link is on the website: https://www.ontariosoilcrop.org/subscribe-to-our-programs-mailing-list/
Several programs are open to receive applications and some we know are coming.
Open now under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Program (S-cap):
RALP: Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program – receiving applications October 24, 2023, at 9 am until available dollars are allocated.
Honeybee Health Initiative – intake opened September 15, 2023, at 9 am and will close when dollars are fully allocated. Claim Deadline of March 1, 2024.
Maple Production Improvement Initiative – opened November 9, 2023, at 9 am.
Not accepting applications, intake is closed:
OFCAF (On Farm Climate Action Fund)
Intakes were between April 1, 2022, and March 31, 2023. Claim deadlines for multi-year projects that were approved in August 2022 intake was October 31, 2023, and for projects approved in the January 2023 intake, claim intake is January 31, 2024.
ASI (Agricultural Stewardship Initiative) Applications were received September 15, 2023, at 9 am until September 28, 2023, at 5 pm. Not accepting applications at this time. Claim deadline is February 15, 2024.
SARPAL (Species at Risk Partnership on Agricultural Lands) Not accepting applications at this time. Claim deadline is December 15, 2023.
SARFIP (Species at Risk Farm Incentive Program) Not accepting applications at this time. Claim deadline is stated in the producer’s approval letter.
Questions? Contact any client services team member or lsinclair@ontariosoilcrop.org 519-955-3139.
I will see you out at meetings and events this fall and winter.