Got salinity? Herbicide-resistant kochia? Foxtail barley?
Help your best acres deliver more with MAP.
DUC’s Marginal Areas Program (MAP) helps you tackle low-performing areas in your grain fields. By seeding perennial forages on acres that are saline, weedy, or hard-to-access, you reduce losses and can focus your input dollars where they generate the greatest return.
If you’ve got field areas that are delivering a negative return on investment, MAP may be right for you. The expert advice of DUC agrologists make it easy!
This year has been phenomenal. We got 205 silage bales off 45 acres. Mind-blowing! Not only that but the kochia areas and the saline areas are shrinking, which is exactly what we want. I worked many years as a retail ag manager and grain farmers should look at my results. DUC’s MAP can rejuvenate some of these non-producing acres with perennial forage.
Cam Tibbett
Camo Cattle Company
Neepawa MB
MAP benefits beyond the DUC financial rebate:
- increase pollinator habitat and biodiversity
- reduce herbicide-resistant weeds
- create a buffer zone to meet product label guidelines
- manage clubroot issues
With the Marginal Areas Program, we are not wasting inputs like fertilizer, seed and chemical – and therefore money – on unproductive areas of our farm. The MAP payment also helps with the cost of establishing hay/feed, the biggest expense and input for our cows.
Amy Bell
Prairie Girl Land and Livestock
Isabella MB
MAP is funded in part through Manitoba’s Conservation Trust.
More incentives available through DUC partnerships with FCC and PepsiCo:
FCC Sustainability Incentive
If you’re an existing Farm Credit Canada (FCC) customer and have converted marginal areas to forage with DUC, you may be eligible for an additional incentive of up to $4,000 per year.
PepsiCo Incentive
PepsiCo, a global food and beverage leader, provides added financial support to eligible producers with oats or canola in their rotation. This incentive equals up to 50% of the FCC incentive, to a maximum of $2,000 per eligible application.
Learn more about this FCC Sustainability Incentive Program including how to apply. Application portal opens October 1, 2026.
Talk to Daphne Appleyard to learn more about MAP.
By Phone: 204-441-4358
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Using the Manitoba Agriculture ‘2025 Cost of Production Guide’ DUC has calculated the losses when seeding wheat or canola into saline areas. Click on the chart for more.
Click above to download or print our Tips for Forage Success in Marginal Areas!
