Call to Action:
On behalf of Saskatchewan producers, contact your MP and MLA to support improvements to the AgriStability program.
Key Points:
- The federal and provincial governments are talking about making improvements to AgriStability that would:
- Remove the AgriStability reference margin limit.
- Increase AgriStability payment levels from 70% to 80%.
- Share the cost (60% covered by the federal government; 40% covered by the provinces)
- This is the first significant proposal to put new money into AgriStability since 2013.
- These changes would be retroactive for 2020.
- These changes are the first step towards negotiating longer-term improvements as part of the next five-year agreement, which starts in 2023.
- APAS has advocated for improvements to AgriStability for many years and supports the proposed changes.
- The proposed changes are also supported by the Canadian Federation of Agriculture and by the vast majority of producer and commodity organizations in Saskatchewan and across Canada.
