Alternative Watering Systems
To provide financial assistance to the producers for the installation of Alternative Watering System. To provide livestock access to fresh, clean drinking water, while keeping livestock out of water ways to reduce the risk of contamination of ground water.
Cross Fencing & Riparian Fencing
Riparian Fencing:To provide financial assistance for fencing off riparian areas on working lands to exclude livestock access, to optimize grazing impacts and to reduce the risk of contamination of the surface and ground water.
Cross Fencing : To provide financial assistance to install permanent or alternative fencing to improve grazing strategies. To promote implementation of rotational/intensive grazing practices to support grassland and pasture health in sensitive and marginal areas.
Perennial Forage Establishment
To provide financial assistance to the producers for the establishment or re-establishment of perennial native/tame cover on sensitive land. To promote and to support the health of natural areas by improving ecological function of natural and managed upland areas, promoting healthy wildlife and pollinator habitat and biodiversity, increasing soil health and reducing soil erosion.
Soil Health Crop Establishment
To provide financial assistance to the producers for the establishment of soil health crops and to encourage producers to integrate soil health principles on their land.
Shelterbelts
To establish, enhance or restore buffer strips and / or shelterbelts to protect sensitive land.
Sisal Twine
To provide financial assistance for the use of sisal twine instead of plastic twine. Offering an environmentally friendly option, reducing the long-term environmental consequences associated with plastic twine.
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Wetland Conservation
This project aims to maximize ecological goods and services by providing agricultural producers with annual incentive payments to not drain low prairie zones and wet meadows, classified as class 1 or class 2 wetlands.
Riparian Management
To conserve, enhance and/or restore riparian areas to provide: improvements to surface water quality; water storage and flow reductions that reduce downstream flooding during high water events; greater landscape resiliency; carbon storage and sequestration; shoreline stabilization and erosion control; wildlife habitat and continuity and greater biodiversity.
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What is the GROW program?
Identified under Water Pillar in Manitoba's Climate and Green Plan, GRowing Outcomes in Watersheds (GROW) is a way of encouraging the delivery of ecological goods and services (EG&S). GROW promotes conservation of natural areas or changes to land use that provide EG&S by helping farmers develop projects that maintain or improve local watershed health and work for there operations. GROW is a made-in-Manitoba program on working lands that focuses on "farming the best, conserving the rest".
The $102 million Conservation Trust was established in 2018 as part of Manitoba's Climate and Green Plan to fund activities that promote the conservation of natural resources by creating, conserving, or enhancing natural infrastructure for the benefit of Manitobans.
The Trust is held by The Winnipeg Foundation and revenues are managed by The Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporation (MHHC).
In March 2019, Manitoba established a second trust fund for conservation purpose: $52 millin GROW Trust. The Trust was established to support the provincial watershed-based conservation initiative, GROW. Revenues from The GROW Trust are administrated by MHHC and used to support the new GROW program.
In 2020, Manitoba established a third trust fund, the Wetlands GROW Trust, with $50 million contribution. The GROW Wetlands Trust is intended to support the protection of critical temporary Class 1 and 2 wetlands as an eligible GROW activity.
Annual interest generated from the three Trusts will be used to fund local GROW programs that provide EG&S. This unique approach provides a continued source of funding that is expected to keep up with inflation, thereby maintaining it's relevance into the future.
To learn more about eligible activities, on a cost-share basis, and to apply for GROW programming, please see application forms below:
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