Grain Farmers of Ontario president Markus Haerle had called on Ontario Agriculture Minister Ernie Hardeman to press hard for help to deal with farm income losses due to trade disputes and weather.
Grain farmers want the reference point for AgriStability to be restored to 85 per cent from the current level of 70 per cent.
Federal officials estimate that will cost more than $300 million and federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said the federal budgets are tight.
The agriculture ministers issued a communique saying AgriStability will be studied further and recommendations will be brought to their April meeting.
“To say again that they’re going back to review (AgriStability)… they probably won’t come to a conclusion until the summer meeting, so clearly we’re going to lose 2020. That’s my fear,” Nielsen said.
“It’s frustrating when we haven’t come up with anything new. This has been asked for some time,” he told a reporter for Glacier publications.
