- Step 1. What this program offers
- Step 2. Who is eligible
- Step 3. How to apply
- Step 4. After you apply
- Step 5. Managing your account
- Resources
- Contact information
Step 1. What this program offers
Intake period: Open
Important changes to AgriStability start with the 2024 program year
- The final deadline to submit your AgriStability program forms will change
- New optional program features will be made available to participants
Learn more about the changes for the 2024 program year.
Help us improve AgriStability
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada invites you to participate in a short survey on your experiences with the AgriStability program.
Your responses will remain anonymous. You can select the official language of your choice on the survey webpage.
The deadline to complete the survey is May 31, 2024.
Late participation for Nova Scotia producers
If your farm has experienced financial challenges because of the impacts of the floods and fires in 2023, AgriStability can help. Although the enrolment deadlines have passed, you can participate for the 2023 program year as a late participant.
AgriStability is one of the Business Risk Management programs under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership (Sustainable CAP).
AgriStability protects Canadian producers against large declines in farming income for reasons such as production loss, increased costs and market conditions.
AgriStability is a margin based program designed to help producers manage large income declines.
Each year, you must enrol in the program, pay your fee and submit a form by the applicable deadlines.
Starting with the 2023 program year, the compensation rate under AgriStability will increase from 70% to 80%. You may receive a payment if your production margin in the current year falls below your historical reference margin by more than 30%. AgriStability covers 80% of the loss for every dollar below the threshold.
Use the AgriStability Benefit Estimator to help you understand how the program works and to calculate an estimated benefit.
For more information on participating, visit Who is eligible? and How to apply.
Read how AgriStability and other business risk management programs helped farms that have faced different disaster situations.
Note: AgriStability is delivered by the federal government in Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories and Yukon.
AgriStability is delivered provincially in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, and Prince Edward Island.