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Growing Forward 2 (GF2)

GF2 priority area: Adaptability and Industry Capacity (Cost-Shared): Environmental Resource Management and Innovation (Alberta) ‑ Annex 2, paragraph 12: (...) The areas of focus for the programme are as follows:
1. On-Farm Energy Management initiatives that educate and encourage producers to pursue opportunities to improve their on-farm energy management. This enables producers to conserve energy and reduce carbon emissions, ultimately reducing the environmental footprint of Alberta's agriculture industry.
2. On-Farm Stewardship initiatives support the implementation of BMPs to reduce the risk of agricultural contaminants entering water supplies. The programme targets BMPs that have the greatest potential to reduce impacts on water quality. Completion of an agri-environmental risk assessment is a pre-application condition. The initiatives are meant to positively impact water quality and promote sustainable management of inorganic agricultural wastes.
3. Confined Feeding Operation Stewardship initiatives are designed to help Alberta livestock operations and commercial manure applicators assess potential risks to water quality and make improvements to minimize those risks. Completion of an agri-environmental risk assessment is a pre-application condition. Activities may include engineering assessments, run-on and run-off controls, and improved manure storage facilities.
4. Agricultural Watershed Enhancement initiatives facilitate the delivery of targeted, comprehensive extension programmes, increased uptake of wetland restoration and riparian health BMP. This is done to realize measureable changes within high risk watershed areas, focused on addressing water quality issues. These initiatives encourages watershed groups, municipalities, and/or industry organizations to develop a watershed group plans to target the adoption of BMPs related to surface water quality by producers in high risk areas.

Growing Forward 2 (GF2)
GF2 priority area: Adaptability and Industry Capacity (Cost-Shared): Livestock Biosecurity Program(Saskatchewan) – Annex 2, paragraph 2(b): This programme seeks to increase producer awareness of national biosecurity practices to help prevent the introduction and spread of disease. For industries with national standards, this programme will increase producer awareness of the principles of biosecurity and how they apply to their industry. The programme also promotes biosecurity awareness among service providers.

Growing Forward 2 (GF2)
GF2 priority area: Adaptability and Industry Capacity (Cost-Shared): Growing Assurance (Manitoba) – Annex 2, paragraph 12: The programme is split into two areas, one focusing broadly on environmental programmes and the other on food safety and related issues. Environmental funding is focused on beaver damage control, promoting best management practices, creating and improving environmental farm plans and promoting ecological goods and services.

Growing Forward 2 (GF2)
GF2 priority area: Adaptability and Industry Capacity (Cost-Shared): Biosecurity and Surveillance (British Columbia) - Annex 2, paragraph 2(b): The biosecurity and surveillance programme promotes risk management approaches to biosecurity issues in BC. Funding is dispersed for industry and commodity groups focusing on education, awareness and implementation of on-farm biosecurity plans; disease surveillance projects for plant or animal diseases; agriculture experts working closely with industry and commodity groups on biosecurity issues; and invasive plant management projects.

Growing Forward 2 (GF2)
GF2 priority area: Adaptability and Industry Capacity (Cost-Shared): Sustainable Agriculture: Environmental Farm Plans (British Colombia) – Annex 2, paragraph 12:
Benefits of completing an Environmental Farm Plan include:
• improved sustainability of British Columbia's agricultural industry;
• recognition of your efforts to manage land in an environmentally sustainable manner;
• enhanced marketing opportunities and improved relationships with environmental agencies; and
• improved response to environmental incidents through contingency planning.
A qualified planning advisor works with qualified farmers or ranchers to complete a confidential Environmental Farm Plan Assessment that outlines recommended actions to help them improve their operations.

Growing Forward 2 (GF2)
GF2 priority area: Adaptability and Industry Capacity (Cost-Shared): Sustainable Agriculture: Beneficial Management Practices (British Colombia) – Annex 2, paragraph 12

Growing Forward 2 (GF2)

GF2 priority area: Adaptability and Industry Capacity (Cost-Shared): Growing Adaptation (Water Management) (Manitoba) – Annex 2, paragraph 2(g)

Growing Forward 2 (GF2)

GF2 priority area: Adaptability and Industry Capacity (Cost-Shared): Water Management (Alberta) – Annex 2, paragraph 12:
Areas of focus for the programme include:
1. On-Farm Water Management initiatives that improve and protect the consistency of on-farm water supplies utilized by rural residents and producers. The programme provides producers with technical assistance to assess their on-farm water needs in relation to their current supply and to increase the volume, sustainability and/or reliability of their on-farm water supply. A new or amended long-term water management plan is a pre-application condition.
2. Regional Water Supply initiatives that assess and develop water supplies in regions where traditional on-farm water supplies are not reliable. These initiatives provide the opportunity to assess, and if appropriate, develop multi-user water supply systems so that a lack of on-farm water supply is not a barrier to production or sustainability. Studies of the feasibility of multi-user water supply systems are required and supported by the programme.
3. Irrigation Efficiency initiatives that will increase energy and water-use efficiencies by assisting producers with the purchase of energy-efficient, low pressure centre pivot irrigation equipment or to upgrade their current irrigation systems to LPCP irrigation equipment.

Growing Forward 2 (GF2) is a five year (fiscal year 2013-2018) policy framework for Canada's agriculture and agri-food sector that seeks to promote innovation; competitiveness and market development; and adaptability and industry capacity (...)

GF2 priority area: Adaptability and Industry Capacity (Cost-Shared): Growing Visions (Manitoba) – Annex 2, paragraph 2(d)

Growing Forward 2 (GF2)

GF2 priority area: Adaptability and Industry Capacity (Cost-Shared): Agri-Environmental Group Plans (Saskatchewan) - Annex 2, paragraph 12:
The province's Agri-Environmental Group Plans (AEGP) provide, through AEGP technicians, access to education and awareness to deal with environmental issues where action by all producers in an area can have a measurable impact. The plans can be used to support sustainable management and development of resources. There are fourteen group plans in Saskatchewan. Producers who do not have an individual Environmental Farm Plan (EFP) can apply through AEGP for Farm Stewardship Program funding to support BMPs.