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AgriStability Unpacked: What Every Canadian Farmer Should Know in 2025

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Live! Thursday, December 11 @ 1 p.m. EST*

*See time zone listing below for more details.

Join us for a practical, one-hour webinar designed to help Canadian farmers and agri-business professionals make sense of the AgriStability program, what it really does, how it’s evolved, and how it can protect your bottom line in an unpredictable industry.

Over the past two decades, AgriStability has undergone significant changes, from Reference Margin Limiting to updated coverage levels and new eligibility conditions. Many producers left the program years ago due to previous changes that no longer apply, and some continue to stay away from the program because of certain misconceptions, but today’s AgriStability is more accessible and beneficial than it has been for many years for most farm operations.

This session will cut through the myths and explain in plain language how AgriStability works, what it covers, and how to assess whether it fits your farm’s risk-management strategy.

Led by AJ Gill, National Lead of the Ag Risk Management Resources for MNP, and Mathieu Lipari, National Risk Management Lead for Farm Management Canada, this webinar will walk participants through the basics of coverage, examine some of the misconceptions around the program, and highlight what’s new for the current and upcoming program years.

You’ll also learn how AgriStability compares to and complements certain other programs, what risks it covers (and doesn’t), and why it’s an essential tool for managing volatility across all commodities.

*Time Zones

10 a.m. PST | 11 a.m. MST | 12 p.m. CST | 1 p.m. EST | 2 p.m. AST | 2:30 p.m. NST

Presented by:

AJ Gill
National Leader, Ag Risk Management Resources
MNP LLP

AJ Gill is a Partner and MNP’s Director, Agriculture Risk Management Resources, supporting the firm’s agriculture advisors across Canada.

Based in Kelowna, AJ is a seasoned leader with a lifelong passion for helping farmers. He moved to Canada from India in 1988 and grew up in a farming family. His hands-on agricultural background has given him deep insights into farmers’ issues, challenges, and opportunities.

With nearly two decades of experience in the federal and B.C. governments, AJ was instrumental in the transfer of the federal government’s AgriStability program to the B.C. Ministry of Agriculture. He previously represented the Province of B.C. on the National Program Advisory Committee, providing advice to federal, provincial, and territorial governments on the delivery of the AgriStability and Agri Invest programs. His most recent role before joining MNP was General Manager, B.C. Ministry of Agriculture.

Mathieu Lipari
Risk Management Lead
Farm Management Canada

Mathieu Lipari is currently the National Risk Management Lead at Farm Management Canada, specializing in enterprise risk management for agriculture, and has worked for Farm Management Canada as a Project Manager since 2010. Mathieu has led projects to develop risk management resources tailored for Canadian producers including the Comprehensive Guide to Managing Risk in Agriculture, risk management toolkits, and AgriShield™, an online comprehensive risk management platform tailored for Canadian farms.

Over the years, Mathieu has taught comprehensive risk management for agriculture, providing training to hundreds of producers and farm advisors across Canada, given guest lectures in Canadian universities and colleges, and published various reports, articles and papers on the topic of risk management. He’s also spoken about risk management at various national and international events including the Agricultural Excellence Conference, the National Risk Management Forum, the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute Exchange, and the International Farm Management Association (IFMA) Congress.

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