AgriRecovery Payments Flowing

Oct 29, 2021

Most recent numbers from the office of Manitoba Agriculture Minister Ralph Eichler show the government has approved $1.67 million from 118 claims for drought assistance through AgriRecovery.

Carson Callum is general manager of Manitoba Beef Producers.

"It's good to see that payments have been moving and producers have been able to get applications approved and cheques sent out the door. I think that's pretty good for an AgriRecovery initiative, when you consider the provincial and federal negotiations that need to go into it," he commented. "But we still understand that the current details of AgriRecovery still need to be looked at and how they could potentially be adjusted to include a bit of eligibility for some of the extraordinary costs that producers incurred as a result of the drought. Conversations that we're still having with the department to see what adjustments can be made."

The province notes it remains committed to processing applications as quickly as possible and payments continue to be processed on an ongoing basis.

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