Friday, March 27, 2020

Grain farmers list COVID-19 requests



Grain Farmers of Ontario is asking its members to contact Members of Parliament to emphasize that they are an essential service and to ask for the following:

1.   A fully funded RMP program at 100 per cent with the cap removed;
2.   
2. An immediate injection of at least five per cent of a farmer‘s 2018 Allowable Net Sales (ANS) into AgriInvest accounts’
3.   
3. An increase to AgriStability to 85 per cent for 2019-2020 and remove Reference Margin Limiting, and

  
4. Protection of the supply chain – from seed, to inputs, to processing, to parts and repairs, to retail, and exports.