Alberta/Canada gov $200/ head livestock assistance.

[the big wheel]

Alberta and Canadian government will fund
$200 per animal livestock. I don’t think
This is a loan. Looks like someone understands
How to take advantage of the 60/40 thing. Maybe!

[bucket]

Its still a giant kick in the balls...

Anyone that says thank you for that announcement is a bit touched.

For perspective....Dofasco and ALgoma each got 400 million in the last two weeks.

Why not a CEBA style loan for 5 years and a 25 percent grant at the end.

Did you notice Kenney more worried about a federal election than hay going south? If he cared the trucks would be stopped at the border.

[walterm]

Alberta and Canadian government will fund
$200 per animal livestock. I don’t think
This is a loan. Looks like someone understands
How to take advantage of the 60/40 thing. Maybe!

Heard it was tied to Fed approval or somehow, is this the Fed payment announced yesterday or over and above?

If over and above what is total available?

[bucket]

The CCA asked for 400 bucks a head.

[bucket]

Heard it was tied to Fed approval or somehow, is this the Fed payment announced yesterday or over and above?

If over and above what is total available?

94 bucks a head from Alberta 136 million with an additional 104 from federal government by the end of the year.

Election is in the way of the federal commitment.

[bucket]

If approved, the total amount would be $340 million split 60-40 between the federal and provincial governments. Alberta’s contribution is $136 million. Under a new AgriRecovery program, this will provide an immediate payment of $94 per head to help cover feed and water access costs for breeding females across the province.

Taking a receipt-based approach, a second payment of $106 per head will be allocated later in the year, for a total of $200, the province says. “This will help level the playing field against a U.S. feed subsidy and maintain our livestock herds in Alberta.”

Receipt based approach???????ranchers have no money to buy additional feed for the extra months of feeding required.

The feed will be in the states by then....

Just another kick in the balls.

[woodland]

Sounds like $94 per “breeding female” soonish and $106 later to cover feed, fencing, water etc……

It definitely takes the edge off. Still got hungry yearlings but it could always be worse and we’ll still be able to roll the dice again.

Hmmmm ………. I wonder what hay prices will do now?

Good luck y’all 🍀

I haven’t been able to walk across this ditch since 2003. Usually water up to the grass and beyond. Checking fence on a pasture that has been partially under water most years but will be cow chow this year.

Fun times…..

[Herc]

Nice to see some support to agriculture, but what are the grain farmers getting.....

[bucket]

Nice to see some support to agriculture, but what are the grain farmers getting.....

SFA...

because grain prices are high and no one in government can do math...a 15bpa wheat crop at 10 bucks is 150 an acre. A 30 bpa crop at 7 bucks is 210...Still seems a grain farmer is short a few bucks no different than a cattle guy for high priced feed and selling cows into a depressed market.

I feel for the cattle guy...they are taking a shit kicking .

Grain farmers are not far behind.

No vision for farmers by government in this country. They told us to be businessmen , they wanted farming to be big business ...they have small minded solutions.

[Sodbuster]

Nice to see the cow guys and gals getting some government support. I feel that this drought will hit them the worst but even with money there is still only so much feed out there and we will see cow numbers decline.