- 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 Government of Canada has announced its commitment to provide compensation for supply-managed sectors for the impacts of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). Additional details are expected to be made available in the spring of 2023.
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 2022-2023, $468 million will be made available up to March 31, 2023 in the form of direct payments. To receive a payment, registrations must be signed and received no later than March 31, 2023.
Eligible producers must register every year of the program to receive a payment.
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, $468 million and $469 million in direct payments was made available in 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 respectively.
| National allocation of funds on a provincial basis | Allocated Quota (% of the P10 Rounded) |
Provincial share $ (Rounded) |
|---|---|---|
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 0.64% | $2,988,160 |
| Prince Edward Island | 1.27% | $5,945,931 |
| Nova Scotia | 2.17% | $10,148,979 |
| New Brunswick | 1.69% | $7,909,652 |
| Quebec | 36.98% | $173,046,200 |
| Ontario | 32.08% | $150,134,669 |
| Manitoba | 4.31% | $20,168,781 |
| Saskatchewan | 3.09% | $14,450,635 |
| Alberta | 8.86% | $41,,468,818 |
| British Columbia | 8.92% | $41,738,176 |
| Total | 100% | $468,000,000 |
How the program is delivered
The Canadian Dairy Commission (CDC) delivers 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