New Brunswick Lime Transportation Assistance Program
Program Objective To help New Brunswick farms defray the cost of trucking lime for the purpose of:
1. Neutralizing the acidity of the soil on agricultural land,
2. Improving soil health and production efficiencies, and
3. Helping mitigate climate change impacts.
Offered by Department of Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries
Amount
Lime purchases: $20 per tonne up to 5 tonnes per acre on fields with a pH of 5.0 or less; transportation assistance at Appendix A rates ($4.86 to $71) based on distance from the lime source and field pH; maximum 200 tonnes per applicant per program year; assistance claimed must exceed $200
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Who can apply
- Primary agriculture producers with a valid Registered Professional Agriculture Producer
(RPAP) registration,
- Agriculture producer associations involved in primary agricultural production
(e.g., Community Pasture Associations), and
- Indigenous Peoples or Indigenous Organizations involved in primary agricultural
production.
Eligible Land
- Farmland, whether active, idle or recently cleared, which has a pH below 6.2 as indicated
on a current or an immediate previous year’s soil analysis lab report.
Eligibility Requirements
- Soil samples must have been taken the year before application, or the year of application,
before any lime has been applied.
- At a minimum, one soil analysis report is required for every 25 acres.
- Variable rates within a field are allowed and encouraged. However, the applicant must
provide an “as spread map”, plus the detailed grid mapping details showing that the field pH average is below 6.2.
About the funding
- The Department of Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries (DAAF) approved sources of
lime are Graymont, in Havelock, Brookville lime in Saint John, and Elmtree, in Caribou, (near Bathurst) NB or other DAAF pre-approved source.
- The assistance level for the transportation of the approved sources of quarried dolomitic
and calcitic limestone is based on the distance from the origin of the lime to the field receiving the lime.
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- Lime purchases: $20 per tonne up to 5 tonnes per acre on fields with a pH of 5.0 or less.
The program does not cover the cost of purchasing the lime, destined for fields with greater than a pH is 5.1.
- The program will also limit transportation assistant to 1 tonne per acre on fields between
pH 6.0 and 6.2.
- For lands eligible for this program, the financial assistance provided is shown in Appendix
A, based on the closest available source of appropriate lime.
- Transportation and lime purchase assistance claimed must exceed $200 to be eligible for
the program.
Maximum Eligible Tonnage
- 200 tonnes per applicant per program year.
- Eligible tonnage per acre:
Eligible tonnage per acre pH level (tonne/acre) 6.0 to 6.2 1 5.4 to 5.9 2 5.0 to 5.3 3 below 5.0 5*
- This quantity of lime must be applied in two separate
applications; one time in the spring, and one time in the fall, with no more than 3 tonnes applied per application.
New Brunswick Lime Transportation Assistance Program Assistance Rates - 2026 Assistance rates are based on the distance from an approved source of lime to the field receiving the lime and pH of the field.
Distance pH (kilometres) ≤5 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 6-6.2 1-49 $ 36.20 $ 15.39 $ 14.58 $ 13.77 $ 12.96 $ 12.15 $ 8.10 $ 7.29 $ 6.48 $ 5.67 $ 4.86 50-74 $ 37.40 $ 16.53 $ 15.66 $ 14.79 $ 13.92 $ 13.05 $ 8.70 $ 7.83 $ 6.96 $ 6.09 $ 5.22 75-99 $ 38.60 $ 17.67 $ 16.74 $ 15.81 $ 14.88 $ 13.95 $ 9.30 $ 8.37 $ 7.44 $ 6.51 $ 5.58 100-124 $ 40.40 $ 19.38 $ 18.36 $ 17.34 $ 16.32 $ 15.30 $ 10.20 $ 9.18 $ 8.16 $ 7.14 $ 6.12 125-149 $ 42.80 $ 21.66 $ 20.52 $ 19.38 $ 18.24 $ 17.10 $ 11.40 $ 10.26 $ 9.12 $ 7.98 $ 6.84 150-174 $ 45.20 $ 23.94 $ 22.68 $ 21.42 $ 20.16 $ 18.90 $ 12.60 $ 11.34 $ 10.08 $ 8.82 $ 7.56 175-199 $ 47.60 $ 26.22 $ 24.84 $ 23.46 $ 22.08 $ 20.70 $ 13.80 $ 12.42 $ 11.04 $ 9.66 $ 8.28 200-224 $ 50.00 $ 28.50 $ 27.00 $ 25.50 $ 24.00 $ 22.50 $ 15.00 $ 13.50 $ 12.00 $ 10.50 $ 9.00 225-249 $ 53.00 $ 31.35 $ 29.70 $ 28.05 $ 26.40 $ 24.75 $ 16.50 $ 14.85 $ 13.20 $ 11.55 $ 9.90 250-274 $ 56.60 $ 34.77 $ 32.94 $ 31.11 $ 29.28 $ 27.45 $ 18.30 $ 16.47 $ 14.64 $ 12.81 $ 10.98 275-299 $ 60.20 $ 38.19 $ 36.18 $ 34.17 $ 32.16 $ 30.15 $ 20.10 $ 18.09 $ 16.08 $ 14.07 $ 12.06 300-324 $ 63.80 $ 41.61 $ 39.42 $ 37.23 $ 35.04 $ 32.85 $ 21.90 $ 19.71 $ 17.52 $ 15.33 $ 13.14 325-350 $ 67.40 $ 45.03 $ 42.66 $ 40.29 $ 37.92 $ 35.55 $ 23.70 $ 21.33 $ 18.96 $ 16.59 $ 14.22 >350 $ 71.00 $ 48.45 $ 45.90 $ 43.35 $ 40.80 $ 38.25 $ 25.50 $ 22.95 $ 20.40 $ 17.85 $ 15.30
Program Objective To help New Brunswick farms defray the cost of trucking lime for the purpose of:
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