Foreign Agricultural Resource Management Services is non-profit, federally incorporated in 1987 to facilitate and coordinate the processing of requests for foreign seasonal agricultural workers. Authorized by Human Resources Skills Development Canada, F.A.R.M.S. performs an administrative role to the Caribbean and Mexican Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program.
 

F.A.R.M.S. is a private sector run organization, governed by a Board of Directors, appointed from those commodity groups participating in the program.

Trinidad & Tobago Liaison Office has Moved

Effective Monday, April 30, 2012 the Trinidad and Tobago Liaison office will relocate to 185 Sheppard Avenue West, Ste. 200, Toronto, Ontario, M2N 1M9.  New telephone numbers:  416-226-5760 and fax:  416-226-2684.  Please ammend your records to reflect this informaiton.

Mexico 2012 Insurance Update

The Mexican Consulate has advised that effective January 1, 2012 Great West Life will be the new insurance carrier for the Mexican workers and the new rate will be 0.94 cents a day, seven (7) days a week per worker and shall be deducted from the workers wages each pay period. 

2012 Applications

The 2012 Application packages has been mailed to employers.  

Please complete the application in full, a Human Resource Activities Record and the Appointment of Representative is required.  A separate application for each country and type of request must be used.  Please pay particular attention to mark on the summary the arrival and end dates for each worker requested by name. 

The SUMMARY OF NAMES MUST be submitted with the application

Seasonal Housing must have been approved in 2011 to allow an order for 2012 to be processed.

Where no prior year housing approval is on file it it mandatory to have an inspection conducted before your 2012 order is released to the country for processing.

Where an order exceeds the current number of workers an employer has previously received - a further housing inspection must be conducted for that portion of the increase in worker numbers.