Vegetation Management Programs

The County of Vermilion River is offering an incentive to assist landowners in controlling specified noxious weeds on range and pasture lands and headlands/fence lines within the Municipality. The rebate is available to private landowners, private leasee of public lands and leasee of County owned property.

To qualify for the herbicide rebate, County of Vermilion River landowners must be controlling specified noxious weeds with approved on-label herbicides registered to control that weed. Specified weeds for this Rebate include:

• Yellow toadflax
• Common tansy
• Ox-eye daisy
• Leafy spurge
• Scentless chamomile
• Field bindweed
• Knapweeds
• White cockle
• Hoary alyssum

To access the rebate, landowners must apply in advance to the Agriculture and Environment Department who will determine program eligibility. Upon completion, submit a copy of the herbicide receipts to the Agriculture Department. The rebate covers 50% of the herbicide purchase cost to a maximum of $1000 per landowner per year. Agriculture Department staff have discretion to approve or deny applications within budget limits set by Council.

Regulated Weed Control Herbicide Rebate Program Form

The County of Vermilion River Weed Warriors Program provides an opportunity for non-profit and community groups in our municipality to help combat noxious weeds like scentless chamomile or burdock. The County will provide a $500 donation to each group for their assistance. Each year we will also offer two bonus incentives: $100 for the group that picks the most weeds by weight and $100 for the group with the most team spirit.

Your group will start the day with an education session and orientation with County of Vermilion River Weed Inspectors. Then you will head out to your site (selected for you by the Weed Inspectors) and spend half a day picking weeds with our County Ag Team.

Requirements:

• All group participants must be at least 9 years old.
• All minors must be supervised by an adult member of the group.
• Groups must include at least 6 participants.
• Participants must wear sturdy footwear.
• Participants agree to wear gloves and a “Weed Warrior” T shirt (provided by the County during orientation).

Groups must contact the Director of Agriculture and Environment to participate. Opportunities may be limited by scheduling and budget, and Ag Department staff have discretion to approve or deny applications within budget limits set by Council.

Weed Warriors Program Application Form

Hay Agreement Form

If you want the County to delay herbicide application along a portion of roadside by their property so it can be hayed, landowners can apply for a Hay agreement by May 31.

Other applicants can apply for a hay agreement between May 31 and June 15. With a signed Hay Agreement, the County will delay spraying the designated roadside until July 15. All haying along County roadsides, with or without a Hay Agreement, must be completed before July 15 to allow roadside mowing. 

A permit is not required to hay County roadsides. However, all work must be completed (hay cut, baled and bales removed) before July 15 to allow mowing and vegetation management.

We no longer accept forms to reserve ditch hay for producers without mowing it at any time. If a producer chooses to hay the ditch, the County will not manage who is permitted to cut where.

No Spray Agreement Form

The County recognizes that some landowners do not want herbicides applied to the municipal road right of ways adjacent to their property, so No Spray Agreements are available to those ratepayers who agree to themselves control weeds and vegetation within the County ROW to meet the County’s vegetation management standards. Complete the No Spray Agreement before May 31 annually.

• Please note that No Spray Agreements are not necessary for areas of obviously maintained yard sites, tame shelterbelts and dugouts