As part of the Ontario Agricultural Sustainability Initiative, the Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program (RALP), provides funding to support Ontario farmers in making their agricultural lands more productive and resilient.

Eligible Projects

The Program provides funding to support projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and sequester carbon. Projects will focus on:

  • Natural Grassland Establishment
  • Perennial Biomass Crops
  • Perennial Warm Season Pastures
  • Reduced Tillage
  • Tree & Shrub Planting
  • Water Retention Features
  • Wetlands

Eligibility Requirements

Farm businesses that file farm business taxes in Ontario as demonstrated by:

  • A valid farm business registration number (FBRN).
    OR
  • A Religious Exemption Letter provided by the OMAFRA Appeal Tribunal (provide with application submission).
    OR
  • A Cultural Exemption Letter provided by the First Nations Agriculture Finance Ontario (FNAFO), formerly known as the Indian Agricultural Program of Ontario to First Nations farmers, verifying the farm business operates in a First Nations community (provide with application submission).
    OR
  • An income exemption from the Farm Property Class Tax Rate Program (i.e., Start-up farm businesses, Business structure change, Not a normal production year, Age/Illness/Death of a spouse) (provide with application submission).

Applicants must:

  • Have a verified, 4th Edition Environmental Farm Plan;
  • Be willing to enter into a signed Land Use Agreement with OSCIA, committing the farm business to maintaining the proposed practice on the acres being applied for, for a set timeline as defined in the Land Use Agreement;
  • and, Be in compliance with all requirements of the law and must remain in compliance for the duration of the project.

Timeline

Intake opened on June 3, 2024, 9 AM ET. The intake will close when the available funding has been fully allocated.

About Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership

The Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (Sustainable CAP) is a five-year (2023-2028), $3.5-billion investment by federal‐provincial and territorial governments to strengthen competitiveness, innovation, and resiliency of the agriculture, agri‐food and agri‐based products sector. This includes $1 billion in federal programs and activities and a $2.5 billion commitment that is cost-shared 60 per cent federally and 40 per cent provincially/territorially for programs that are designed and delivered by the provinces and territories.