La Financière agricole du Québec: Description

The Agri-Québec Plus program offers complementary financial support to Québec’s farm businesses that:

Participate in the AgriStability program;
Have a net annual income of under $50,000;
Work in sectors where the products are not covered or associated by the Farm Income Stabilization Insurance (ASRA) program or are not supply-managed;
Meet certain eligibility criteria.

This program covers productions carried on in Québec. The coverage offered is 85% and is complementary to Agri-Stability coverage.

Protections

Products that are allowable are agricultural products not covered or associated with ASRA or not supply-managed.

More specifically, Agri-Québec Plus covers these productions:

Alpaca
Animal semen, embryos and breeding fees, excluding those related to cattle, swine, sheep, turkeys and chickens
Buffalos and bison
Deer
Elk
Goats (dairy, beef and angora, including milk)
Honey, bee by-products and pollination
Lamas
Milk-fed calves
Other animals, including the production of milk-fed calves (starting in 2016), but excluding other cattle, swine, sheep, turkeys and chickens
Rabbits
Raising of horses and other equine breeds, including urine (except racehorses)
Ranch furs
Red deer
Wild boars

Beans (dry edible)
Borage
Buckwheat
Canary seed
Chick peas / Garbanzo beans
Corn silage or corn forage
Faba beans
Field peas
Flaxseed
Forage (including hay, cereal forage pellets, except corn silage)
Forage seed
Grain corn
Hemp
Kamut
Lathyrus
Lentils
Lupines
Millet
Mustard seed
Oilseed radish
Other grains and oilseeds, excluding those allowable under the ASRA program
Quinoa
Rice
Rye
Safflower
Soybeans
Sugar beets (and molasses)
Sunflower
Switchgrass, miscanthus and non-forage crops grown for biomass production or litter
Tobacco
Vegetable seed
Wild rice
Woody biomasss (short rotation willow): cuttings, mulch, litter or liquid biofuel

Bedding plants and flowers, house plants, flower pots, perennials, cut roses, etc.

All maple products