Financial Assistance

Ag Action Manitoba Program

Research and Innovation

• farmers
• agri-processors
• industry organizations
• industry service providers
• academic and research institutions
• diversification centres
• national research institutions
• private researchers
• research stations

• Research to support economic valuation of benefits from Ecological Goods and Services including wetlands, biodiversity, shelterbelts, flood protection, etc., to assist in future policy decision making processes
• Investigation of farming systems that sequester carbon and fix nitrogen including:
• Enabling an increased prevalence of annual legume crops (e.g. peas, faba beans, lentils, soybeans) and perennial forages in crop rotations
• Identification of best management strategies for livestock/crop integration that improve farm productivity and environmental performance
• Efficient water use to improve resilience to climate change (e.g. drought, excess water) through identification of cost effective, best management strategies for water conservation technologies and energy efficiency
• Crop diversity to improve cropping system resiliency, including:
• Improvement of crop adaptation to abiotic and biotic stresses utilizing biotechnology (e.g. genetic manipulation of plants, clusters of regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR), molecular markers)
• Development of crop varieties (e.g. forages, sunflowers, buckwheat, flax, perennial grains) that are adapted to Manitoba’s changing climatic conditions

• Co-product utilization; recycling of nutrients (e.g. potato by-products being fed to cattle, phosphorus recycling)
• Water utilization and efficiency
• Greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation strategies
• Precision agriculture for sustainable food production
• Strategies to reduce the environmental footprint of livestock production systems

• Identification and utilization  of high quality sustainable protein sources including:
• Sustainable increase of protein sources
• Identification of efficient and sustainable protein extraction technologies
• Linking sustainable protein for improved health outcomes
• Identification of personalized nutrition strategies for optimal health and disease prevention utilizing nutrigenetics, nutrigenomics, and other technologies.

• Reduction of the impact of mycotoxins and other anti-nutritional compounds through breeding and production and post-harvest management.
•  Variety development of barley, corn and forage to enhance feed quality.
• Co-product utilization for livestock feed.

• Refer to the Ag Action Manitoba Program – Research and Innovation Guidebook for more information on eligible and ineligible costs.
• Complete an Application Form and email completed form to agaction@gov.mb.ca.
• Applicants will receive a confirmation email indicating that their application has been received. If a confiramtion email is not received, please send an email without attachments to agaction@gov.mb.ca or call 1-844-769-6224.

• This request is for short-term Basic and Applied Research projects and Capacity Building project activities occurring between January 2022 and December 2022. This is the last call for proposals under the CAP Research and Innovation Activity.
• Eligible activities under Capacity Building include equipment purchase for research purposes and training staff to utilize new equipment.
• Information on co-applicants will be required for all projects where more than one individual or business are partnering to submit a joint application.
• The applicant must provide a communications plan addressing knowledge transfer (meaning the transfer of expertise, learning and skills between parties) at the time of application.
• Once a decision on the application has been made, the applicant will receive a notification letter on the status of their project.
• Successful applicants must enter into a contribution agreement with the Manitoba government before any funding is provided. The agreement lists the rights and responsibilities of all parties with respect to government funding.
• Submitted invoices must be from applicants to be eligible for funding.
• Interim reports and payment requests may be made using the Interim Report Form.
• Final reports may be submitted using the Final Report Form and Performance Indicator Report Form.
• Reports and itemized receipts or other acceptable proof of payments will be required to make a claim.

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