. Agri-news. Agriculture. m GO 00 CO GO CO CO CO January 13,1997 Arable acres supplementary payment program Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada will distribute fifty million dollars to Alberta farmland owners who were not covered under the Western Grain Transition Payments Program (WGTPP), said Walter Paszkowski, Minister of Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development (AAFRD), today. The supplementary payment is part of the special bi-lateral agreement signed by Alberta and the federal government. More than 90,000 applications were mailed to provincial farmers this past week. They were sent
. Agri-news. Agriculture. m GO 00 CO GO CO CO CO January 13,1997 Arable acres supplementary payment program Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada will distribute fifty million dollars to Alberta farmland owners who were not covered under the Western Grain Transition Payments Program (WGTPP), said Walter Paszkowski, Minister of Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development (AAFRD), today. The supplementary payment is part of the special bi-lateral agreement signed by Alberta and the federal government. More than 90,000 applications were mailed to provincial farmers this past week. They were sent to landowners who had acreage which was ineligible under the $ billion WGTPP instituted by the federal government to soften the blow of the end of the 100-year Crow rail freight subsidy in 1995. "Alberta will be responsible for design and delivery of the $50 million Arable Acres Supplementary Payment Program (AASPP)," said Paszkowski. "I am pleased that many Alberta farmers who were not eligible for the federal Crow Benefit payout will now receive funds for all their cultivated ; The 90,000 AASPP applications were mailed to the owners of arable Alberta land as of February 27,1995, according to municipal tax rolls, and who have cultivated land that was not covered under the WGTPP. One group of landowners in the mailout are those who did not return their WGTPP applications because they did not grow any eligible crops in 1994. The other group are those who, on their returned forms, said they had tame hay, forage, pasture, horticultural crops or other arable acres that were ineligible under the WGTPP rules. AASPP applications were pre-printed with landowners' names, addresses and legal land locations. Completed applications, signed by all landowners, must be postmarked no later than February 14, 1997, to be eligible for the additional payout. A minimum of 10 eligible arable acres are required per application. Additional information or applications may
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