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U.S. Fish and Wildlife has provided another $60,000 for the grant-matching program.

October 1, 2020

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PREVENTING ATTACKS: The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is offering grant money to qualifying livestock farmers to help them develop practices that will decrease or prevent wolf attacks.Art Wolfe/Getty Images

New grant money is available to Minnesota livestock producers to help prevent wolf attacks.

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture has $60,000 to award through the Wolf-Livestock Conflict Prevention Grants program. Applications are due Jan. 15, 2021.

The grants provide reimbursement for costs of approved practices to prevent wolf-livestock conflicts. Eligible expenses for the grant program will include any or all of the following items:

  • purchase of guard animals

  • veterinary costs for guard animals

  • installation of wolf-barriers which may include pens, fladry and fencing

  • installation of wolf-deterring lights and alarms

  • calving or lambing shelters

  • other measures demonstrated to effectively reduce wolf-livestock conflicts

“Prevention of wolf attacks is key to limiting livestock losses in the state,” says Whitney Place, MDA assistant commissioner. “I encourage Minnesota farmers and ranchers to examine ways they can decrease the chances of wolf attacks and apply for this funding.”

Eligible producers must live within Minnesota’s wolf range, as designated by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, or on property determined by the MDA commissioner to be affected by wolf-livestock conflicts.

Any animal species produced for profit and documented to have been killed by wolves in Minnesota in the past is eligible. This includes bison, cattle, chicken, deer, donkey, duck, geese, goat, horse, llama, mule, sheep, swine and turkey.

The funding also requires a 50:50 matching cost-share, meaning half of eligible project costs will be reimbursed by the grant, and the remaining 50% will be paid for by the grantee.

The grant application must be emailed or postmarked by 5 p.m. on Jan. 15, 2021. Work for the grant must be completed and expenses reported by Aug. 31, 2021.

The application and more information can be found by visiting MDA online.

This is the fourth round of funding made available through the Wolf-Livestock Conflict Prevention Grants. The first two rounds were funded by the Minnesota Legislature in 2017. This round and the previous round have been funded by grants from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Source: The Minnesota Department of Agriculture, which is solely responsible for the information provided and is wholly owned by the source. Informa Business Media and all of its subsidiaries are not responsible for any of the content contained in this information asset.

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