A farmer must meet the following requirements to be included in the consortium:

• The farmer must be “shovel-ready”.
• The farmer must have a Farm Business Registration
  • If the farmer is exempted from the Farm Business Registration, please submit written confirmation from Agricorp.
• While the farmer does not have to own the property to be tiled, they must have at a minimum a five-year written lease agreement for the property which must be provided to the organization administering the project.
• If a farmer who received funding under the program ceases farming completely or sells the lands tiled within five years of the date the tiling was completed on their property, they may be required to repay the NOHFC conditional contribution. The not-for-profit organization administering the tile drainage project should be notified if this occurs.
• The farmer’s funding is based on per acre tiled. NOHFC will not fund the tiling of the same acre of land twice.