Climate Agri-Solutions Fund

• BC Corporate Registry
• Copies of relevant documents
• Supplementary materials such as quotes
• Agrologist name and supporting documents, where applicable

Who is eligible?

• Farm businesses with a farm in BC or Yukon.
• Applicants appropriately registered, licensed, and/or certified to conduct business in BC and/or the Yukon.
• BC applicants with farm status.
• Applicants registered with CRA.
• Applicants in operation for at least one year.

Eligible expenses

• Price differences and cost offsets for inhibitor fertilizer, polymer coated urea, synthetic fertilizer substitutes, and spring nitrogen application
• Planning, assessment, design, consultancy, agronomic support, soil testing, and soil mapping costs tied to eligible practices
• Seed and planting costs for legumes in rotation, intercropping, winter cover cropping, and improved pasture composition
• Equipment purchases and upgrades for manure application, nitrogen fertilizer application, and seeding cover crops, including related fuel and contracted labour where explicitly tied to the additional application
• Rotational grazing infrastructure, including fencing, watering systems, virtual fencing components, and one-time installation and configuration costs

Ineligible Costs and Activities

• GST, in-kind costs, and practices applied to a specific farm area before the program or previous BCCAF
• Non-nitrogen nutrient management, inhibitors and PCU applied to the same acres or field, manure management that does not incorporate manure in the soil, and soil testing or plans without corresponding emissions-reducing practices
• Cover crops where over-wintering is routine practice, mechanical or chemical termination, crops harvested or grazed leaving less than 6 inches of growth over winter, market crops for the next growing season, cover crops that take land permanently out of production, fertilizer and crop protection costs, and rejuvenation of existing forages, pastures, or hay land
• Rotational grazing costs that are not aligned with the grazing plan, removing or replacing old or existing fences, non-renewable power sources such as generators, used fencing materials, Texas gates, portable livestock corral panels, ongoing maintenance, annual software or subscription fees, and labour to install collars or for system training, monitoring, or management

• Applications are reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis.
• If program funding requested exceeds funding available, applications are prioritized based on their overall contributions to decreasing greenhouse gas emissions or increasing soil carbon.

• Visit IAF’s Client Portal and create a personal profile with your name and email; if you have applied to an IAF-delivered program in the last few years, you can skip the sign up and organization registration step.
• Provide your organization’s information, including name, contact details, type of organization, BC ID or CRA numbers, and primary contact.
• Wait for IAF to validate your account and grant access by email.
• Select the Climate Agri-Solutions Fund from Funding Opportunities.
• Provide site information, activities and project costs, copies of relevant documents, funding request or project budget, and BC Corporate Registry, and upload supplementary materials such as quotes.
• Submit the application through the IAF Client Portal.

• Applications are reviewed for completeness, and missing information may be returned to the applicant.
• Applications may be reviewed by a professional Agrologist after submission if they were not reviewed and recommended before submission.
• Funding decisions are sent by email via the IAF Client Portal within 8 weeks of a complete application, and all adjudication decisions are final.
• If approved, IAF adds an approval letter outlining obligations and any associated terms and conditions to the project documents section of the IAF Client Portal.
• Successful applicants must submit a final report and all invoices before reimbursement; approved project costs are paid by a single EFT after all project expenses, activities, and reporting are complete.