Bureau (AEPB), as part of the Agri-Environment Services Branch (AESB). The Deficit Reduction Action Plan, which was part of the Federal Budget of 2011, mandated departments to identify savings proposals amounting to 5% and 10% of their total operating and grants and contributions expenditures. In 2012, the Federal government announced that it would be ending the Community Pastures Program. Shortly afterward, PFRA's field offices were phased out and workforce adjustment was implemented. Federal funding for the PFRA's shelterbelt program to provide free seedlings of trees and shrubs to prairie farmers was discontinued in 2013 by the Conservative Federal Minister of Agriculture, Gerry Ritz, thus ending a long era of very low cost erosion and drought control measures throughout the prairies. References Further reading Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA) The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada 1935 establishments in Canada Government of Canada Agriculture in Canada