Description

This individual program is based on savings just like the AgriInvest program. You can make an annual deposit into an account and, in turn, receive matching government contributions. Amounts deposited into the Agri-Québec account thereby become a reserve allowing you to better manage the risks facing your operation.

Additional support during your transition toward organic agriculture

Since 2017, if your operation is in transition toward organic production, you can benefit from additional support from the Agri-Québec program.

This contribution almost doubles the current government intervention for a maximum duration of three years. It is granted to pre-certified production, when the income of pre-certified products represents at least 50% of the operation’s eligible income.

Operations that initiated pre-certification procedures as of 2015 are automatically eligible for this increase due to an information-sharing agreement with the Conseil des appellations réservées et des termes valorisants (reserved designations and enhancement terms board, or CARTV).

• Chicks of all species except hens and turkeys
• Ducks
• Emus
• Geese
• Guinea fowls
• Ostriches
• Pheasants
• Pigeons
• Quails
• Rheas

• 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

• Apples
• Black/red currants
• Blackberries
• Blueberries
• Blueberries in corymbs
• Cherries
• Cider
• Cranberries
• Grapes
• Loganberries
• Neutral-day strawberries
• Nuts
• Other berries
• Other fruit from fruit trees, excluding apples
• Pears
• Plums
• Prunes
• Raspberries
• Saskatoon berries
• Strawberries
• Tame elderberries
• Wine

• Asparagus
• Beets
• Broad beans
• Broccoli
• Brussels sprouts
• Cabbage
• Carrots
• Cauliflower
• Celery
• Cucumbers
• Eggplants
• Herbs, spices and medicinal plants
• Leeks
• Lettuce
• Melons
• Onions
• Other field fresh vegetables
• Parsnips
• Peppers
• Potatoes
• Pumpkins
• Radishes
• Rhubarb
• Spinach
• Squash
• Sweet corn
• Tomatoes
• Turnips, rutabagas
• Wax beans

• Gherkins
• Green peas
• Sweet corn
• Wax beans

• Cucumbers
• Lettuce
• Mushrooms
• Other edible greenhouse vegetables
• Peppers
• Tomatoes

• Christmas trees, cultivated
• Other non-edible field fresh horticulture
• Sod

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

All maple products

Note that the following products are not allowable under the Agri-Québec program:

• Products covered or associated with the ASRA program or under supply-management;
• Forestry products;
• Racehorses;
• Peat moss;
• Cannabis;
• Wild animals in their natural environment;
• Resale of products that do not stem from the farming operation;
• Income derived from agricultural or aquacultural activities carried on outside of Québec.

Products covered or associated with the Farm Income Stabilization Insurance Program (ASRA) have not been allowable since 2014.