Vulcan County declared a Municipal Agricultural Disaster on July 21, 2021
Declaring a municipal agricultural disaster can bring awareness to a developing situation, inform residents, industry and provincial and federal governments and enable collaboration with impacted producer groups. Municipal declarations do not automatically trigger access to increased funding programs, provincially or federally. If an agricultural disaster is declared over a vast area of the Province of Alberta it will hopefully enable the Federal and Provincial governments to officially declare a disaster which may hopefully provide some sort of support either through financial or some type of drought assistance.
Further information on agricultural disasters can be found on the following pages:
Agricultural Financial Services Corporation
Province of Alberta Agriculture & Forestry
Government of Canada Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Letters of concern can be sent to encourage the Province of Alberta in making a formal declaration of agricultural disaster to:
Joseph Schow, MLA This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Martin Shields, MP This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Devin Dreeshen, Minister of Agriculture This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
