Climate Change and Environment

Grasslands and Grazing Management

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The intake for this program is now closed.
Program guidelines will be updated for any future intakes. Please visit the Intake Information page for the upcoming Sustainable CAP intake schedule.

Implementing the Grasslands and Grazing Management BMP will result in:

  • Increased productivity and economic gains
  • Reduced greenhouse gas emissions
  • Reduced stream-bank degradation
  • Improved nutrient and water retention
  • Improved biodiversity and wildlife habitat
  • Improved soil and water quality

Intake Information

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Eligible Applicants

  • Agricultural Crown Land forage lease holders
  • Association of Manitoba Community Pastures
  • Indigenous primary producers and communities, including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit
  • Primary producers

Eligible Activities

  • Input from a knowledgeable professional to create a grazing management plan that considers forage rest and recovery, stocking rates, paddock rotation and placement of water infrastructure.
  • Rotational grazing infrastructure including permanent and temporary cross fencing and offsite watering for:
    • Tame pasture
    • Native grasslands
    • Rejuvenation
  • Conversion of marginal and high-risk annual cropland to permanent grasslands (includes establishment of native or tame forages)
  • Increase in the composition of alfalfa or other locally-adapted and persistent nitrogen fixing perennial legumes in pasture and hay to at least 30 per cent of the forage.

Project Timeline

Projects will have up to eighteen months to be completed:

  • Projects shall start on, or after, April 1, 2025
  • Projects must be completed by no later than September 30, 2026

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.

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