- Step 1. What this program offers
- Step 2. Who is eligible
- Step 3. How to register
- Step 4. After you register
- Producer portal
- Contact information
Step 1. What this program offers
Intake period: Closed
The intake period for the Dairy Direct Payment Program is now closed.
The objective of the Dairy Direct Payment Program is to support dairy producers as a result of market access commitments made under recent international trade agreements, namely the Canada–European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
In August 2019, the federal government announced that it will make available $1.75 billion to supply-managed cow's milk producers. Up to $345 million and $468 million in direct payments was made available in 2019-20 and 2020-21 respectively.
The payment schedule for the remaining $937 million in direct payments over the next 2 years is:
- $469 million in 2021-2022
- $468 million in 2022-2023
The full amounts announced are available to producers in the form of direct payments
| Notional allocation of funds on a provincial basis | Allocated Quota (% of the P10 Rounded) |
Provincial share $ |
|---|---|---|
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 0.64% | $3,017,030.57 |
| Prince Edward Island | 1.27% | $5,937,333.94 |
| Nova Scotia | 2.16% | $10,134,303.87 |
| New Brunswick | 1.68% | $7,898,215.24 |
| Quebec | 36.84% | $172,795,986.65 |
| Ontario | 31.97% | $149,917,584.27 |
| Manitoba | 4.35% | $20,420,942.77 |
| Saskatchewan | 3.12% | $14,631,305.35 |
| Alberta | 8.95% | $41,987,286.12 |
| British Columbia | 9.01% | $42,260,011.22 |
| Total | 100.00% | $469,000,000.00 |
Amounts are available up to March 31 of each year. To receive a payment, registrations must be signed and received no later than March 31 of each year.
Eligible producers must register every year of the program to receive a payment.
The Canadian Dairy Commission (CDC) has been mandated to deliver the program. The CDC will:
- collect information from provincial milk marketing boards on the licensed quota holders
- calculate individual payments based on the percentage of each producer's provincial quota holdings
- work closely with each of the provincial milk marketing boards to deliver funding