2025 Special Intake- Livestock Water Supply

Manitoba Agriculture has developed a funding program to support livestock producers in accessing new or expanding existing water supplies during prolonged periods of dry conditions. 
Eligible Applicants: 
  • This intake is limited to ONLY livestock producers (hobby farms are not eligible)
  • The Land Location(s) for the project must be located within a municipality, Northern Affairs Community, or First Nation within a Designated Region as identified by AAFC's 2025 Livestock Tax Deferral Provision. 
Eligible Beneficial Management Practices (BMP's): 
  • Wells: drilling new or deepening/extending existing, plus test hole drilling, screening, casing, well caps, etc. 
  • Dugouts: constructing new or rehabilitating existing dugouts. 
  • Associated components and actions: purchase and installation of pipe, plumbing and electrical, trenching, and earthworks, etc.
  • Permanent pipeline development: pipelines below the frost line OR shallow/above ground pipelines (pipelines above the frost line) that can be winterized, pipe, plumbing materials, trenching, and earthworks, etc. 

Environmental Farm Plan

Environmental farm planning enables Manitoba to be a producer of safe, high quality food in a sustainable manner. Since 2004, Manitoba has offered the Environmental Farm Plan (EFP) as a voluntary assessment tool for producers. Environmental farm planning helps farm managers identify agri-environmental assets and risks, develop an action plan to help mitigate risks, meet sustainable marketing requirements and access agri-environmental cost-share programming.
In order to be eligible for the SAM or RALP Program, you must have a valid EFP.

Predator Resistant Fence Construction

Financial assistance is available for construction of the following fence types that reduce the risk of livestock predation:
Predator Resistant Fence: deters predators from attacking livestock by fencing calving areas, pastures, and extended grazing areas.
​Dead Compost Pen: limits attraction of predators to farms by disposing of mortalities in a fenced deadstock compost area.
CLOSED FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Sustainable Agriculture Manitoba (SAM)

​Sustainable Agriculture Manitoba (SAM) provides funding to farmers and land managers to implement cost-shared beneficial management practices (BMPs) that increase the environmental and economic sustainability of agriculture operations in Manitoba. Priority areas include climate change adaptation and mitigation, air quality, water quality and quantity, soil health and biodiversity.
CLOSED FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program (RALP): Carbon Sequestration and Grassland Resilience

​The objective of RALP is to increase the environmental resilience of agricultural landscapes by accelerating the adoption of beneficial on-farm land use and management practices that increase carbon sequestration. These include practices that enhance provision of multiple ecological goods and services (EGS), which are the environmental benefits that result from the physical, chemical and biological processes of a healthy ecosystem.
CLOSED DECEMBER 12, 2024

Water Rights Licensing

The purpose of the Manitoba Water Rights Licensing scheme is to ensure the sustainable allocation of the province's water resources. The intent of water rights licensing is to protect the interests of licensees, existing domestic users, the general public and the environment with respect to the use or diversion of water.

Click Before You Dig MB 

​Click Before You Dig MB is a service brought to you by the Manitoba Common Ground Alliance (MCGA) and its members. This service provides underground facility screening and notification for safe excavation for people who intend to disturb the ground in Manitoba and the utility operators who register their buried facilities.  The MCGA is primarily concerned with the safety and the prevention of damage to underground utilities. It is required that you submit a locate request before doing an excavation.

Manitoba Water Well Map

Locate any abandoned and live wells within the province

Manitoba Flood Forecast

Manitoba AgriMaps

Through AgriMaps, you can interact with soil survey data and related interpretations including surface texture, drainage, agricultural capability, suitability for irrigation and much more. 
With Manitoba AgriMaps you can: 
  • Search for Land by Legal Description
  • View Soil Survey Data and Agricultural Interpretations
  • Measure distances and areas in the map
  • Mark-up the map with text and shapes
  • Print a custom Map
Water-users and aquatic hobbyists play an important role in protecting Manitobas water bodies and valuable aquatic resources from the introduction and spread of aquatic invasive species (AIS) such as Zebra Mussels and Spiny Waterflea. 

Manitoba Fish Stocking Information

In the Manitoba Fishing Stocking Map, you will find information on the waterbody name, fish species, year stocked, and the fishing division. On their website, you will find information on the hatcheries operated in Manitoba, along with additional information for anglers and management strategies. 
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