Advanced Payments Program 2024-04-08T16:37:35+00:00

Advanced Payments Program

For the benefit of our farmers, Horticulture Nova Scotia administers AAFC Advance Payments Program (APP) loans.

Advance Guarantee Agreement

The Advance Payments Program is a federal program, delivered and administered by Horticulture Nova Scotia. Under the program, the Government of Canada provides the loan guarantee, funds the interest-free portion of advances and helps to make low interest rates possible on the remainder for Canadian producers.

Advances provide up to 50 per cent of the average market price producers are expected to receive for their agricultural product. Effective March 25, 2024, the interest-free limit for the 2024 Advanced Payments program is $250,000. The loan periods are up to nine months for fresh produce loans (December 31 deadline) and 18 months for storage and for greenhouse advances. Loans are available for the growing season beginning April 1 of each year, except for greenhouse growers where the start date for advances is earlier at December 1.

Advances are available to producers on a wide variety of vegetables, together with strawberries, raspberries and highbush blueberries; fall loans are available on crops in storage.

The 2024 program will opens April 1 for fresh produce and storable. For forms, please contact Horticulture Nova Scotia at 902-678-9335 or email info@horticulturens.ca; please note an administration fee of 1 per cent for members, 1.5 for associate members, and 3 per cent for non-members is applicable.

And for more information on APP, please visit http://www.agr.gc.ca/eng/?id=1290176119212.

Below are the advance rates for 2024:

Blueberries – High Bush –  Fresh Non-Storable 1.6277 Pound
Raspberries – Fresh Market Non-Storable 1.9352 Pound
Strawberries – Fresh Market Non-Storable 1.1339 Pound
Strawberry Plants Storable 0.0582 Plant
Beans – Dry Storable 0.4074 Pound
Asparagus Non-Storable 1.7479 Pound
Beets Storable 0.1717 Pound
Broccoli Non-Storable 0.4918 Pound
Brussel Sprouts Storable 0.7411 Pound
Cabbage Storable 0.1077 Pound
Carrots Storable 0.1164 Pound
Cauliflower Non-Storable 0.3453 Pound
Corn – Sweet Non-Storable 0.2764 Pound
Leeks Storable 0.8061 Pound
Lettuce – Romaine Non-Storable 0.5578 Pound
Onion – Bulb Storable 0.1009 Pound
Pumpkins Non-Storable 0.0970 Pound
Radishes Non-Storable 0.3376 Pound
Rutabagas Storable 0.1639 Pound
Spinach Non-Storable 1.5433 Pound
Squash – Summer Non-Storable 0.2474 Pound
Squash – Winter Storable 0.2474 Pound
Tomatoes – Field Non-Storable 0.6722 Pound
GH – Cucumbers – Long English Non-Storable 2.9100 Dozen
GH – Tomatoes – Beefsteak Non-Storable 0.4850 Pound
GH – Tomatoes – Cluster Non-Storable 0.4850 Pound
Potatoes Storable 4.3650 CWT