The 21 Saint-Amable farms affected by the crisis were compensated only for the 2006 harvest with existing programs through AgriStability, a program to stabilize farm businesses. The CAIS program was replaced by AgriStability and AgriInvestment. Also, other ad hoc programs have enabled farmers to achieve production levels per hectare, to compensate for the destruction of potatoes, and to cover unexpected costs. However, most of the money came from CAIS, which was not fair to all farmers, who obtained different levels of compensation depending on their background, but did not receive compensation for potatoes that had to be destroyed.
In all, producers received some $6.5 million in compensation under different programs for 1,360 hectares of potatoes farmed by 21 businesses. These programs did not provide fair treatment with respect to what governments announced. We are still $1 million short for the 2006 harvest.
After 2006, there were no measures other than CAIS or AgriStability catastrophe measures. There were no structural adjustments in 2007. The AgriStability mechanism is such that compensation decreases substantially the second year after a crisis.