by BETTER FARMING STAFF
While expanding the current list of wildlife species and variety of livestock that farmers can be compensated for, Ontario is increasing the compensation farmers can get for damage caused by predatory wildlife. The changes modernize the 30-year-old Livestock, Poultry and Honey Bee Protection Act, which governs wildlife damage compensation.
Through the new Wildlife Damage Compensation Program, livestock producers will receive improved compensation when their livestock or poultry are injured or killed by predatory wildlife or when bee colonies, beehives or beehive equipment are damaged by wildlife. The program is part of Growing Forward, a joint federal-provincial-territorial initiative.
Guidelines and applications will be available July 1 but some of the details were released by the Ontario government today.
The new program provides a $30 reimbursement for each claim a municipality processes; it provides a $50,000 fund for strategic investments with industry to better understand how to prevent agriculture-wildlife conflicts; and it commits to reviewing the program every two years to ensure it is up-to-date.
Since 2009, almost 13,700 livestock animals were injured or lost due to predators like coyotes or wolves in Ontario. BF
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Elections must be coming up!
All the talk about paying for livestock and whatever to increase, how about some money for crops destroyed by wildlife. The damage we have from deer, coons , the great bird brought back in Ontario to be hunted the turkey and several other species there is no mention of paying for the crops. Over the years we have lost way more dollar damaged from them than what was kill off by wildlife. The goverment saves a lot more by paying for one and not the other.
They already have a program that covers that. It is called production insurance.
Wow, isn't amazing what can finally be accomplished when an election is coming up!? McGuinty must be desperate and he must also think we are stupid. A few programs here and there cannot make up for all of the other hardships we have encountered because of his government over the past 8 years.
E-Health, higher electricity rates, Green Energy Act and all of its shortcomings, Endangered Species, i.e. Bobolink (yes we have a reprieve for 3 years, and then what?), proposed changes to the gas well legislation, OSPCA legislation and its problems, sneaky deals such as Samsung, the list is endless.
I cannot wait until October 6.
WHERE AND HOW DO YOU GET PRODUCTION INSURANCE. THE ONES WHO GET PAID FOR LIVESTOCK KILL BY WOLVES OR BEARS DON,T HAVE TO HAVE INSURANCE TO GET A CHECK FROM THE GOVERMENT, WHY CAN,T CROPS DESTROYED GET THE SAME AND NOT HAVE TO BUY INSURANCE FOR THE DAMAGE.
You buy car insurance and house insurance to protect yourself and your family and assets. All farmers should be buying production insurance as well to protect their businesses. It is just common sense. If they can't afford it, then maybe they should re-evaluate whether they should be in business at all, given they cannot afford basic input costs. After all, if you're that far in the hole, then there must be something more serious affecting teh business.
Its not that we can,t afford production insurance its the fact that I never heard of it before and don,t even know where to look for it.
The people who gets paid for the livestock from the mun. goverment
don,t have to have livestock insurance that is kill by wildlife,just go to your mun goverment to claim it.
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