My AAFC Account for AgriStability and AgriInvest: sign in with GCKey or your bank, check which provinces it covers, and view statements and letters.
Applies in: CA
My AAFC Account is the online portal where a participant sees AgriStability and AgriInvest information, receives letters and statements, and sends forms to the Administration without paper. My AAFC Account - Online services for AgriInvest and AgriStability describes it as convenient and secure access to personalized program information online, and then lists what it carries: a Participant Identification Number request, account views, application tracking, current and prior year statements, letters, account transactions, contact information, adjustments and appeals, AgriStability direct deposit, representative access, and secure electronic communication. That list is the honest scope of this guide. Two things the portal is not need saying at the start, because both look like portal jobs and neither is. AgriInvest money moves at a financial institution, and the annual AgriStability and AgriInvest forms for individuals travel through Canada Revenue Agency filing routes, with the Agency sending the data to the program. Section 8 sets out each of those routes so the portal is used for what it actually does.
Coverage splits by program, and the split decides whether signing up helps at all. For AgriStability, My AAFC Account - Online services for AgriInvest and AgriStability states that online services are available to program participants in Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, the Northwest Territories and Yukon. For AgriInvest, the same page states that online services are available to program participants in all provinces and territories, except those in Quebec, where AgriInvest - 1. What this program offers states that the program is delivered provincially by La Financière agricole du Québec. A producer who only participates in AgriInvest can therefore use the portal in most of the country, while a producer who only participates in AgriStability can use it in six jurisdictions.
The provincial route for AgriStability is not a lesser version of the same service. AgriStability: 3. How to apply directs producers in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, or Prince Edward Island to contact their provincial AgriStability administration, and lists the Agriculture Financial Services Corporation in Alberta, Agricorp in Ontario, the Prince Edward Island Department of Agriculture and Land, La Financière agricole du Québec, and the Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation, with toll-free numbers for each. Those administrations run their own enrolment and filing arrangements, and a My AAFC Account sign-up does not replace them.
British Columbia sits in an awkward middle that both wordings must be allowed to keep. The How to apply page groups British Columbia with Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, the Northwest Territories and Yukon for electronic filing through Canada Revenue Agency routes, using EFILE for individuals and Corporation Internet Filing for corporations with CRA-certified software that supports AgriStability and AgriInvest forms. The My AAFC Account page does not list British Columbia among the jurisdictions for AgriStability online services. This guide preserves both wordings rather than choosing between them. A British Columbia participant should file through the Canada Revenue Agency route, sign up for My AAFC Account only for AgriInvest if applicable, and call 1-866-367-8506 to confirm whether AgriStability information appears in the portal before treating the portal as the record of the case.
AgriStability and AgriInvest share a portal, a Participant Identification Number, and a tax filing base, and almost nothing else about how money is decided. Keeping them apart in your head prevents the most common confusion, which is treating a savings account deposit as if it were a benefit application, or a margin calculation as if it were a bank balance.
AgriStability is margin based. AgriStability: Program Handbook states that a payment may be received when the production margin in the current year falls below the reference margin by more than 30%, that AgriStability covers 80% of the decline beyond the 30%, and that for the 2025 program year only the compensation rate increased from 80% to 90%. The reference margin is an Olympic average: production margins for the previous five years, with the highest and lowest years dropped and the remaining three averaged, according to AgriStability: 4. After you apply. The same page caps the payment at the lower of $3 million and 70% of the margin decline, with $6 million as the 2025-only figure, and states that payments are not issued for less than $250. Participation costs money each year. Once enrolled, the Administration sends an Enrolment Notice showing the fee, plus a $55.00 administrative cost share, and the How to apply page gives December 31, 2026 as the final deadline to pay the 2026 fee with penalty unless the Enrolment Notice shows a different date, with a penalty equal to 20% of the fee after the initial deadline. The 2026 enrolment deadline had already passed, and the form to enrol as a new or rejoining participant for the 2027 program year was to be available in late fall 2026, so check the How to apply page for the current form rather than sending a stale one. Filing a form for a completed year runs June 30 for the initial deadline without penalty and September 30 for the final deadline with penalty, with a $500 reduction for each month or part of a month past the initial deadline, and the interim payment application deadline for the 2026 program year is March 31, 2027.
AgriInvest is a savings account with a government match, not a benefit calculation. AgriInvest - 1. What this program offers describes it as a self-managed producer-government savings account designed to help manage small income declines and make investments to manage risk and improve market income, and states that each year a deposit of up to 100% of Allowable Net Sales can be made, with a matching government contribution on 1% of Allowable Net Sales. AgriInvest Program Handbook puts the limits on that sentence: maximum Allowable Net Sales of $1 million a year, so a maximum matchable deposit of $10,000, and minimum Allowable Net Sales of $25,000, so a minimum matchable deposit of $250. The account holds two funds. Fund 1 holds the producer's deposits and Fund 2 holds matching government contributions and interest, withdrawals come from Fund 2 first and are included in income for tax purposes, and Fund 1 follows once the Fund 2 balance is zero and is not taxable. The maximum account balance is 400% of average Allowable Net Sales from the current and two prior program years. One further condition applies to larger operations. Starting with the 2025 program year, a participant whose average Allowable Net Sales, before the limit is applied, is $1 million or more for the previous three program years must have an eligible and valid agri-environmental risk assessment to receive matching government contributions, according to AgriInvest: Fact Sheets, so check that page before assuming a match will follow a deposit. Filing deadlines changed with the 2025 program year: June 30 is the initial deadline to submit the form without penalty and September 30 is the final deadline, with the maximum matchable deposit reduced by 5% for each month or part of a month past the initial deadline.
The sign-in page is the door, and it is shared with grants and contributions program information, so read its heading before assuming every link on it belongs to AgriStability or AgriInvest. Sign in to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada online services states: sign in or register for a My AAFC Account or grants and contributions program information. The credential is one of two kinds. Online services use GCKey or Sign-In Partners, Sign-In Partners uses banking credentials from many financial institutions, and either credential is a unique User ID and password that allows secure communication with the Government of Canada.
First-time setup adds a registration step after the credential check. Once logged in, the user is redirected to the Enterprise Secure Access Service registration page, completes the registration, accepts the terms and conditions, and inputs the User ID and password, and once that setup is complete the GCKey or Sign-In Partners User ID and password is what logs the user into online services. Keep that information somewhere securely accessible, because the same page states the Online services team will not have access to it. A single GCKey can be used for multiple Government of Canada online services, which is worth knowing before creating a second one for this portal alone.
One warning on the sign-in page is worth carrying into every later step. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada will never ask for money or personal information through unsolicited phone calls, email, or other methods of communication, and the page points readers to cyber security guidance for a farming business. If a message claims to be about a My AAFC Account payment, a fee, or a locked account and asks for credentials or money, do not follow it. Go to the sign-in page directly and call 1-866-367-8506 if anything about the account looks wrong. Recovery of a lost credential is a check, not a described procedure, in this guide: no page sets out the recovery screens, so recover the GCKey or bank sign-in where it lives and recheck the sign-in page before concluding the portal itself is broken.
A new participant needs a Participant Identification Number, called a PIN, before the program can tie forms, notices, and payments to the right operation. The portal is one of three routes for the request, and the portal route has exact labels that are worth following literally. AgriStability and AgriInvest New Participant Identification Number Request Form (AgriInvest) sets out the steps: complete and scan the form, on the Dashboard under Programs select AgriInvest, click on Submit a PIN request, and upload the completed form. The same page gives the paper routes for the same form: mail to AgriStability and AgriInvest, PO Box 3200, Winnipeg MB R3C 5R7, or toll-free fax to 1-877-949-4885.
Practical details on that page save a wasted attempt. The form is a fillable PDF that must be saved to a computer, and the page warns that the form may not open on mobile devices such as tablets and phones, and that Adobe Reader 11 or higher is needed. Save the file first, open it on a computer, complete it there, and only then upload the scan through the portal or send it by mail or fax. No page states how long a PIN request takes, what confirmation arrives, or whether the PIN appears in the portal, by mail, or both. Treat the request as pending until a PIN is actually in hand, keep a copy of the completed form, and call 1-866-367-8506 if no PIN has arrived and a filing deadline is near, rather than sending a second request that could create a duplicate record.
Once signed in, the portal is a record-keeping and messaging service for the case, and its value is that the record is the program's own copy rather than a folder of printouts. My AAFC Account - Online services for AgriInvest and AgriStability lists viewing accounts, tracking the status of an application, viewing current and prior year statements, viewing letters sent by the program, checking account transactions, and viewing and updating contact information. For AgriStability, AgriStability: 4. After you apply explains what one of those statements means: once a form is processed, the Administration sends a Calculation of Program Benefits showing how the benefit was calculated, along with the payment if applicable. In the portal, that calculation, the enrolment notice, and the coverage notice where one applies are documents to read carefully and keep, because the adjustment and appeal clocks in section 6 run from the dates on them.
Direct deposit is registered in the portal for AgriStability only. The My AAFC Account page lists registering or updating direct deposit information with the AgriStability-only note in parentheses, and no equivalent is stated for AgriInvest, whose money sits at a financial institution. Do not look for an AgriInvest direct deposit setting in the portal. Address and contact changes also run through the portal. AgriInvest - 5. Managing your account states that an address can be changed by logging into My AAFC Account, selecting Manage Address/Contacts, and updating the address, and that the same label is used to add or remove a contact person in addition to the primary contact. The paper Address Change form to the Winnipeg PO Box and a phone call to 1-866-367-8506 remain as alternatives, with identity details required on the call. Email notification keeps the portal from going stale unnoticed: AgriStability optional program features states that an email notification is sent when new documents are available to view or when there is new activity in the account. Beyond the labels named on the official pages, Dashboard, Programs, User access, Manage Address/Contacts, Messages, and Submit a PIN request, this guide does not describe the screens inside the portal, because no official page describes them. Follow the labels on screen, check that the document is for the right program year and the right operation, and stop and call the Administration if a screen asks for something this guide does not describe.
Messages is the working channel of the portal. Forms are completed outside the portal, then sent as attachments through Messages, which is the pattern the program guides repeat for one form after another. AgriStability optional program features states that the 2026 AgriStability Coverage Notice Intended Productive Capacity Information Form and the 2026 AgriStability Tax-Aligned Reference Margin Consent Form can be sent quickly and securely as attachments using the Messages feature in the online portal. AgriInvest - 5. Managing your account states the same pattern more generally: communicate electronically in a secure environment, include attachments with a message, and file an adjustment or appeal online, including attachments. The PIN request in section 4 follows the same shape, with an upload step rather than a message attachment. The practical habit is therefore simple: complete the form on a computer, save a copy, send it through the portal channel named for that form, and keep the sent copy with the date it was sent.
Tracking and correction run through the same account. The My AAFC Account page lists tracking the status of an application and filing an adjustment or appeal online, and the managing page repeats both for AgriInvest. Adjustments correct information already submitted, and the clocks differ by program, so they are stated separately here and in the FAQ. For AgriStability, the handbook gives 18 months from the issue date on the original Calculation of Program Benefits, with a possible requirement to report a net income change to the Canada Revenue Agency first and provide a Notice of Re-Assessment. For AgriInvest, the handbook gives 18 months from the issue date on the original Deposit Notice, a $75 threshold on the change to the matchable deposit, and the same Canada Revenue Agency step first when the adjustment increases net income or the deposit, with 90 days to make an increased deposit after an adjusted Deposit Notice. Appeals run 90 days from the date the Administration notifies the participant of a decision, in both programs, on an Appeal Submission Form with supporting documentation, submitted online including attachments by a My AAFC Account user. If a deadline falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or public holiday, the program pages state that the form or deposit can be sent or made on the next business day, which is worth checking on the page for the specific form rather than assuming it for every notice.
An accountant, bookkeeper, spouse, or family member can be given limited access to the portal without handing over the participant's own credential. The representative route is documented in unusual detail, including its limits, which makes it the most trustworthy part of the portal to follow step by step. Authorize a representative to access your My AAFC Account information (AgriStability) describes My AAFC Account as a secure online portal that gives access to AgriStability information, where a participant can see program information, communicate with the Administration, change contact information, and designate an authorized representative with limited access.
There are two ways in, depending on whether the participant already uses the portal. As a portal user, go from the Dashboard to the User access tab, click the Invite new user button to invite a representative to join one or more accounts, complete the required fields, and send the invitation. The representative receives an email with an invitation access code, then creates a My AAFC Account or signs in with an existing one and enters the code when prompted. Without a portal account, the participant signs and submits a completed My AAFC Account Representative Authorization Form, which the representative may download from the portal and complete on the participant's behalf, but the participant must sign it, and the representative may send the signed form through the Messages feature or by mail or fax, after which the Administration reviews it and phones the participant to confirm whether access is given or denied. One form can authorize the same representative for both AgriStability and AgriInvest when the participant farms in Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, the Northwest Territories or Yukon and participates in AgriStability; a different representative for each program needs separate forms.
The limits matter as much as the access. A representative can view enrolment notices, Calculations of Program Benefits, coverage notices, and letters, track an application, send adjustments and appeals online, answer messages, and communicate with the Administration about the information they can access. A representative cannot change AgriStability direct deposit information, change electronic or paper delivery, change an address or mail settings, change which documents are received, change the Do not contact selection, see or update additional contact people, or opt out of or close a program account. Access remains until cancelled. A portal user removes it by visiting the User access page, changing the representative's role to no access, and saving, and anyone can also remove access by calling 1-866-367-8506. Grant access narrowly, check what the representative can actually see after the invitation is accepted, and remove access when the working relationship ends rather than leaving it open.
Three jobs sit outside the portal, and each has its own route that must not be confused with a portal task. First, AgriInvest money. Deposits are made at a financial institution within 90 days of the Deposit Notice, only one deposit per notice, and withdrawals are taken from the account at the financial institution at any time, Fund 2 first. The portal shows statements and transactions; it does not hold the account. Moving an AgriInvest account to a different financial institution is also a phone and paper process, starting with a call to 1-866-367-8506 for an Account Transfer form, and the managing page warns not to close the existing account first, because government contributions in the account would then be taxable when withdrawn, and warns that moving an account does not extend a Deposit Notice deadline.
Second, tax filing. For producers in British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, the Northwest Territories and Yukon, the How to apply page lists EFILE for individuals and Corporation Internet Filing for corporations, using CRA-certified software that supports AgriStability and AgriInvest forms, with the Canada Revenue Agency sending the data electronically to the AgriStability program. Individuals use the harmonized guide and Statement A forms, corporations and co-operatives use Statement A and Statement B, and paper copies go to the Canada Revenue Agency Tax Centre in Winnipeg or, for 2026 corporation forms only, to the AgriStability Administration in Winnipeg. Producers in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, and Prince Edward Island follow their provincial administration instead. My AAFC Account does not file a tax return, and a filed tax return does not by itself create portal access.
Third, fee payment. No page states that an AgriStability fee is paid inside My AAFC Account, so this guide does not claim that it is. The handbook states that the fee and administrative cost share can be sent directly to the Administration, or the participant can register with a financial institution to pay electronically, and the Enrolment Notice shows the fee and the deadline that applies. Check the Enrolment Notice for where and how to pay, keep proof of payment, and call 1-866-367-8506 if the notice and the portal appear to disagree. The same caution applies to any screen that asks for payment inside the portal: stop, check the Enrolment Notice and the program pages, and call before paying anything through an unfamiliar prompt.
Not for AgriStability online services, on the wording of the official pages. [My AAFC Account - Online services for AgriInvest and AgriStability](https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/agricultural-programs-and-services/online-services-sign/my-aafc-account-online-services-agriinvest-agristability) lists AgriStability online services for participants in Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, the Northwest Territories and Yukon only. [AgriStability: 3. How to apply](https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/programs/agristability/step-3-how-apply) tells producers in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec and Prince Edward Island to contact their provincial AgriStability administration, and gives the numbers 1-877-899-2372 for Alberta, 1-888-247-4999 for Ontario, 1-855-251-9695 for Prince Edward Island, 1-800-749-3646 for Quebec and 1-866-270-8450 for Saskatchewan. AgriInvest is different: the same My AAFC Account page lists its online services for all provinces and territories except Quebec, where La Financière agricole du Québec delivers the program. British Columbia needs a separate check, because the How to apply page puts it with the group that files through Canada Revenue Agency routes while the My AAFC Account page does not list it for AgriStability online services, so call 1-866-367-8506 and ask whether the portal shows your AgriStability information before relying on it.
No, and expecting the portal to move money is the easiest mistake in this guide to make. Deposits and withdrawals happen at a participating financial institution, not in My AAFC Account. [AgriInvest Program Handbook](https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/programs/agriinvest/resources/agriinvest-program-handbook-sustainable-canadian-agricultural-partnership) states that you make your deposit to your AgriInvest account at your financial institution, within 90 days of the date on your Deposit Notice, and that only one deposit can be made by the deadline shown on that notice. Withdrawals follow the same split: Fund 2, government contributions and interest, comes out first and is included in income for tax purposes, and Fund 1, your own deposits, follows once the Fund 2 balance is zero. What the portal does for AgriInvest is narrower and still useful, since [AgriInvest - 5. Managing your account](https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/programs/agriinvest/step-5-managing-your-account) lists tracking an application, viewing current and prior year statements and letters, communicating securely, and filing adjustments and appeals online. Check a deposit by looking at the statement from your bank or credit union, or by calling 1-866-367-8506.
Sort out the credential where it lives, then sign in again, because the portal does not hold a copy of it. [Sign in to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada online services](https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/agricultural-programs-and-services/my-aafc-account/government-canada-gckey-and-sign-partners) states that online services use GCKey or Sign-In Partners, that Sign-In Partners uses banking credentials from many financial institutions, and that the Online services team will not have access to your GCKey or Sign-In Partners User ID and password. The same page describes the first setup: after logging in you are redirected to the Enterprise Secure Access Service registration page, where you complete the registration, accept the terms and conditions, and input the User ID and password, and you are told to keep that information somewhere securely accessible. No page sets out the step-by-step recovery screens for a forgotten GCKey or bank sign-in inside the portal, so recover the GCKey through the Government of Canada GCKey service or the bank sign-in through your bank, and if sign-in still fails after that, call 1-866-367-8506. Treat any unsolicited call or email asking for money or personal information as a scam, since the same page states that Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada will never ask for money or personal information through unsolicited phone calls, email, or other methods of communication.
A representative sees the documents and the case, not the controls over money and mail. [Authorize a representative to access your My AAFC Account information (AgriStability)](https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/programs/agristability/resources/authorize-representative-access-your-my-aafc-account-information-agristability) states that an authorized representative can view enrolment notices, Calculations of Program Benefits, negative margin Calculations of Program Benefits, coverage notices, notifications of ineligibility and account-related letters, and can track an application, send adjustments and appeals online, answer messages and communicate with the Administration about the information they can access. The same page draws the line just as firmly on the other side: a representative cannot change direct deposit information for AgriStability, change whether documents arrive electronically or on paper, change an address or mail settings, change which documents are received, change the Do not contact selection, see or update additional contact people, or opt out of or close a program account. To grant access as a portal user, go from the Dashboard to the User access tab, click Invite new user, complete the required fields and send the invitation, after which the representative receives an email with an invitation access code and enters it when creating or signing in to their own account. If you are not a portal user, the representative must sign up, you must sign the Representative Authorization Form, and the Administration phones you to confirm whether access is given or denied. Access stays until it is cancelled, which can be done on the User access page by changing the role to no access and saving, or by calling 1-866-367-8506.
The portal carries both, but the two programs run on different clocks, and merging them is where a filing goes wrong. [My AAFC Account - Online services for AgriInvest and AgriStability](https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/agricultural-programs-and-services/online-services-sign/my-aafc-account-online-services-agriinvest-agristability) lists filing an adjustment or appeal online among the portal functions, and [AgriInvest - 5. Managing your account](https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/programs/agriinvest/step-5-managing-your-account) adds that adjustments and appeals can be filed online including attachments. For AgriStability, [AgriStability: Program Handbook](https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/node/3220) gives 18 months from the issue date on the original Calculation of Program Benefits to send an adjustment, and says a change to net income may first have to be reported to the Canada Revenue Agency, with a Notice of Re-Assessment requested before the adjustment is made. For AgriInvest, [AgriInvest Program Handbook](https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/programs/agriinvest/resources/agriinvest-program-handbook-sustainable-canadian-agricultural-partnership) gives 18 months from the issue date on the original Deposit Notice, requires the adjustment to move the matchable deposit by $75 or more before it counts toward another deposit or an overpayment, and requires the same Canada Revenue Agency step first when the adjustment increases net income or the deposit. Appeals in both programs run 90 days from the date of the decision or denial notice, and the AgriInvest handbook states the appeal must be made on an Appeal Submission Form with supporting documentation, submitted online by a My AAFC Account user including attachments.
A coverage notice is an estimate, not a payment decision, and it is only on offer in six jurisdictions. [AgriStability optional program features](https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/programs/agristability/resources/agristability-optional-program-features) states that coverage notices started with the 2024 program year for producers in Manitoba, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Yukon and the Northwest Territories, that a notice provides an estimate of the reference margin and coverage level for the current program year, and that notices are available online in the My AAFC Account portal during the program year. Three conditions sit behind that availability: enrolment in the program for the current year, an election to have a tax-aligned reference margin, and submission of the current year's intended productive units, with December 31, 2026 given as the deadline to request a 2026 coverage notice and to choose a tax-aligned reference margin for 2026. The two forms behind a notice, the 2026 AgriStability Coverage Notice Intended Productive Capacity Information Form and the 2026 AgriStability Tax-Aligned Reference Margin Consent Form, can be sent quickly and securely as attachments using the Messages feature in the portal, and the notice itself is then received in the portal. If the notice suggests no payment would qualify, the same page states that no final application need be submitted, which is the practical point of asking for one.
No in-portal fee payment step, GCKey or bank sign-in recovery steps, PIN processing time or delivery method, or screen layout beyond the labels named on the official pages is stated in this guide, because none was verified on an official page. Figures not stated in this guide: any statement that AgriInvest deposits or withdrawals happen inside the portal, any general AgriStability fee formula beyond the $55 administrative cost share and the fee shown on the Enrolment Notice, and any claim that British Columbia participants have AgriStability online services in My AAFC Account, where the two official wordings are preserved instead. Recheck the My AAFC Account page, the How to apply page, and the Enrolment Notice on the day you sign in, and call 1-866-367-8506 if the portal does not show what this guide describes.