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Swine Innovation Porc Commends Minister's Commitment to Smooth Transition to Canadian Agricultural Partnership
Stewart Cressman - Canadian Swine Research and Development Cluster (Swine Innovation Porc)

Farmscape for February 20, 2018

The Chair of Swine Innovation Porc is commending Canada's Minister of Agriculture for his commitment to ensuring a smooth transition from Growing Forward 2 to the new Canadian Agricultural Partnership.
Last week, in observance of Canada's Agriculture Day, Federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay announced federal programs under the new Canadian Agricultural Partnership are now open for business and the new partnership is ready to come into effect on April 1st.
Stewart Cressman, the Chair of Swine Innovation Porc says pork sector stakeholders are pleased with the fact that the federal government is continuing the agri-science cluster programs and he was encouraged by the Minister's assurance that there will be no lapse as agriculture transitions into the new program.

Clip-Stewart Cressman-Swine Innovation Porc:
Our experience has always been that there has been a gap period and we've had to manage around that and part of that challenge is ensuring that we had cash flow, we had reserves to ensure that staff with the intellectual memory of running the program are in place so that if and when we receive our allocation of funds that we can quickly implement and, as part of that program that applications could commenced December 1st, we have put our application in in early January.
It's our understanding that it's been read through and they're making some final decisions on it and we're hopeful that the information will be conveyed to us so that we can start with the new program on April 1st which is the target date of the start of the new CAP program.

Cressman says keeping the personnel who provide the technical expertise to support research in place within the universities and federal research facilities by ensuring there isn't a gap period is very important.
For Farmscape.Ca, I'm Bruce Cochrane.


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