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SUMMARY:Advance Payments Program
DESCRIPTION:The Advance Payments Program is a federal loan guarantee program which provides agricultural producers with easy access to low-cost cash advances.\n\nUnder the program\, you can access up to $1\,000\,000 in total advances based on the value of the eligible agricultural products you will produce or that you have in storage. The Government of Canada pays the interest on the first $100\,000 of your advance (the first $250\,000 for 2024 and 2025). You repay your advance as you sell the agricultural products\, with up to 18 months to fully repay the advance for most commodities (up to 24 months for cattle and bison).\n\nAPP advances can provide you with cash flow to meet your financial needs until you are able to sell your agricultural products. The program can provide marketing flexibility by allowing you to sell your agricultural products based on market conditions rather than the need for cash.\n\nAPP advances are available through 26 participating producer organizations\, that is\, APP Administrators\, across Canada.
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/advance-payments-program/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Grant
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SUMMARY:BUSINESS MENTORSHIP NETWORK
DESCRIPTION:Whether you need business basics or strategic planning for long-term growth\, Young Agrarians knows that gaining business development skills is one of the biggest challenges facing new farmers. Our aim is to provide new farmers\, next generation farmers\, or farmers adding a new enterprise to an existing farm business with an opportunity to build their business knowledge and use it to grow their farm operations to achieve long-term viability.\n\nMentees will receive approximately 30 hours of mentorship primarily in the late winter/spring planning season\, an online farm business webinar series with live Q&A sessions in the winter\, check-ins through the summer season and reflection wrap up process in the fall. Mentors take a coach approach to help you chart a course towards long term business viability. Mentorships will be by phone\, email\, and where possible site visits.
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/business-mentorship-network-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260223T190000
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SUMMARY:Sowing Seeds of Change: Alberta Farmer Organising Is Here To Stay!
DESCRIPTION:Join our Regional Workshop Webinar during NFU Days\, our annual membership drive running through February\, when new memberships are available at 50% off! But this month isn’t just about a discount. NFU members from coast to coast to coast are working hard on issues ranging from local abattoir regulations to climate change policy\, farmer income and farmland access\, to seed rights. This is your chance to help get that information into the hands of your farming friends and neighbours! \nWe’ll dive into a century of Alberta’s deep agrarian history\, including Black Settlers\, Métis Settlements\, Co-operatives\, and farmer-controlled marketing systems. As well as our region’s current work\, connecting farmers across distances\, strengthening surface rights advocacy\, and growing youth leadership. The union makes us strong. Together we make it stronger. This workshop highlights: Sowing Seeds for the Next Chapter of Alberta Farmer Organising! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSign up!
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/sowing-seeds-of-change-alberta-farmer-organising-is-here-to-stay/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="National Farmers Union":MAILTO:nfu@nfu.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Regina:20260225T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Regina:20260225T170000
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SUMMARY:Test
DESCRIPTION:Test event
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/test/
LOCATION:online
ORGANIZER;CN="National Farmers Union":MAILTO:nfu@nfu.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Regina:20260225T170000
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SUMMARY:NFU Youth Meet & Greet/ Rencontre d'Accueil des Jeunes de l’UNF
DESCRIPTION:Join our National Youth Meet & Greet for young farmers\, farm workers\, and food system organisers to connect and learn how the NFU Youth Caucus organises\, develops policy\, and builds collective power! \nSoyez au rendez-vous pour notre carrefour national pour la jeunesse paysanne\, le personnel agricole et les forces vives du système alimentaire. Venez nouer des liens et découvrir comment le caucus des jeunes de l’UNF s’organise\, élabore ses politiques et renforce son pouvoir collectif ! \n \n\n\n\nRegister Today!
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/nfu-youth-meet-greet-rencontre-daccueil-des-jeunes-de-lunf/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:NFU Youth,Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="National Farmers Union":MAILTO:nfu@nfu.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Regina:20260226T140000
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SUMMARY:We Farm Because We Remember: Honouring Ancestors Through Radical Black Farming\, Self-Determination\, Land\, and Food Sovereignty
DESCRIPTION:This session centres Radical Black Farming as an ancestral and contemporary practice rooted in memory\, resistance\, and self-determination. Guided by Black farmers\, land stewards\, and organizers\, the conversation honours ancestors whose agricultural knowledge\, spiritual relationships to land\, and collective labour continue to shape Black food systems today. \n\n\n\nFeaturing Jacqueline Dwyer\, Matriarch of the Toronto Black Farmers\, who grow and share clean\, organic food within Black communities\, alongside Nadine Dominique\, engaged in reforestation and land restoration efforts in Ayiti\, this session highlights how Black communities steward land across geographies shaped by colonization\, displacement\, and extraction. \n\n\n\nIsaac Saney\, professor at Dalhousie University\, will draw connections to Black agrarian movements and reparations-based land justice initiatives through his work examining Black farmers in Cuba. Cikiah Thomas of the Global African Congress will further explore how farming\, reforestation\, and land reclamation function as tools for healing\, climate resilience\, collective repair\, and reparative justice. \n\n\n\nThis session will be followed up with organizing session on Thursday\, March 5th (Noon PST / 1pm MST / 2pm SK\, MB / 3pm EST / 4pm AST).Here\, we’ll be turning knowledge into action! This session will be a guided conversation about how mobilize and organize around what we learned in the knowledge-building session on Feb. 26th. Register for both sessions below.
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/we-farm-because-we-remember-honouring-ancestors-through-radical-black-farming-self-determination-land-and-food-sovereignty/
CATEGORIES:NFUniversity
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LOCATION:https://nfu-ca.zoom.us/j/87667070432?pwd=RhXgDj3hJfGa8qBGAT1Ky2O2JAyKUd.1
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SUMMARY:Seeds of Change Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Come out and Watch short films about farmers in Canada and Alberta! Connect with local community members and learn about the NFU\, Walk the Talks and the Devon Nature Club. Light snacks and drinks will be served. Venue is wheelchair accessible and parking is free.
URL:https://www.nfu.ca/event/seeds-of-change-film-festival/
LOCATION:devon community center\, 20 Haven Drive\, Devon\, Alberta (AB)\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Screenings,Films About Farming,NFU Youth
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ORGANIZER;CN="National Farmers Union":MAILTO:nfu@nfu.ca
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