The Eastern Milk Pool (P5) and Western Milk Pool (WMP) administer milk classes 1(c) and 4(c) which are designed to promote innovation in dairy products. Each pool offers temporary cost sharing, phased out over three years, for innovative products. Prices for milk are billed to processors according to the milk class for the finished product.
The objective of the 1c/4c program in the P5 and WMP is to increase the demand for dairy products by providing cost sharing to processors that are seeking to develop new market opportunities. Licensed processors in Canada using domestically produced milk and/or ingredients who are producing a new/innovative product may be eligible to the 1c/4c programs. New/innovative products are those that are not already manufactured in Canada and result in a net increase in the demand for milk in Canada. This may include factors such as new product composition, end-use applications, and flavouring.
For more information, please contact your provincial milk marketing board.