Canada-Québec Support Initiative for Farm Enterprises Affected by Exceptional Hail Episodes in 2017

Home
Canada-Québec Support Initiative for Farm Enterprises Affected by Exceptional Hail Episodes in 2017
Documents
Examples of additional expenses

Examples of additional expenses


	Expense categories	Examples of additional expenses
Infrastructure repair	Irrigation Mulch attachment or detachment Gravel Materials	Destruction of plants in fields and greenhouses Cleaning ditches, picking up branches and rubble in fields Pumping water out of fields Reconstructing dikes Reconstructing culverts Repairing underground drainage and gully systems Repairing hedgerows
Equipment	Maintenance Fuel Lubricants and replacement parts Costs for using machinery Costs for leasing machinery	Replacing damaged equipment Repairing and cleaning tractors and damaged equipment Re-installing irrigation and protective equipment in fields Modifying heavy equipment providing access to fields and aerial spraying equipment
Labour costs	Harvest and preparation time Contract work Wages	Costs for additional manual picking, sorting and grading during harvesting Costs related to extra seasonal labour: transportation, leasing of vehicles, travel, lodging
Other variable costs	Electricity Seeds and plants Fertilizers, conditioners, pesticides Testing costs Interest on lines of credit and long-term loans Transportation on and off the farm Seeding, planting, weeding, irrigation, spraying, adjoining leaves Cleaning products Consultants, advisory club Telecommunications costs	Soil, water and health safety tests (ex. salmonella and E Coli) Water treatments Engineering, site management and surveillance costs Customs duties on imported equipment

Note: This list is informative and non-exhaustive. It illustrates, without being limited to, the various additional expense sources possible, generated by hail episodes and the weather-related conditions that accompany such episodes.