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Grasslands and Grazing Management
Climate Change and Environment
Grasslands and Grazing Management
1Implementing the Grasslands and Grazing Management BMP will result in:
- Improved soil and water quality
- Increased productivity and economic gains
- Reduced greenhouse gas emissions
- Increased environmental benefits
- Reduced stream-bank degradation
- Improved nutrient and water retention
- Improved biodiversity and wildlife habitat
Intake Information
This program is currently not open for intakes.
Eligible Applicants
- Agricultural Crown Land forage lease holders
- Community Pastures
- Indigenous primary producers and communities, including First Nations and Metis
- Primary producers outside of Watershed District boundaries.
*Please note that primary producers within Watershed District boundaries should contact their local Watershed District about available programming in their area.
Eligible Activies
- Planning
- Input from a knowledgeable professional to create a grazing management plan that takes into account forage rest and recovery, stocking rates, paddock rotation and placement of water infrastructure.
- Infrastructure
- Rotational grazing infrastructure including permanent and temporary cross fencing and offsite watering for tame pasture and native grasslands.
- Rejuvenation
- Convert marginal and high-risk annual cropland to permanent grasslands (includes establishment of native or tame forages) and/or increase the use of alfalfa or other locally-adapted and persistent nitrogen fixing perennial legumes in pasture and hay by at least 30%
Project Timeline
Projects will have eighteen months to be completed.
Cost Share Funding
Eligible applicants can be reimbursed for up to 75 per cent of total approved eligible costs, to a maximum of $15,000 per project.