Insights and Stories on Crop Insurance

AgriStability proposal could have hidden cost, Pedersen warns

Dec. 1, 2020 at 7:31 pm CST

Ottawa’s proposal for an improved AgriStability program could give farmers short-term gain for long-term pain, Manitoba’s agriculture minister Blaine Pedersen warns. At the online federal-provincial-territorial agriculture ministers’ meeting on Friday, federal Agriculture Minister Marie Claude Bibeau proposed dropping AgriStability’s maximum reference margin, and increasing the compensation rate from 70 to […]

Trump’s payments to farmers hit all-time high ahead of election

Oct. 19, 2020 at 4:08 pm CDT

By Mark Weinraub

Manitoba winter wheat, fall rye seeding deadlines extended

Aug. 26, 2020 at 1:51 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Monday’s storm hit an estimated 37.7 million acres in U.S. Midwest

Aug. 14, 2020 at 3:57 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Ontario to insure for crop loss due to lack of labour

Jul. 9, 2020 at 10:45 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Insurance customers’ contact info dropped into MASC email

Jun. 1, 2020 at 8:26 pm CDT

A contact list of crop insurance customers at Manitoba Agricultural Services Corp. has gone out via email to several dozen of the Crown ag insurance agency’s customers. MASC on Monday said a file containing names and contact information of an unspecified number of AgriInsurance clients was “attached in error” to […]

By Dave Bedard

Saskatchewan to bump up AgriStability interim payouts

Apr. 24, 2020 at 2:06 pm CDT

Saskatchewan farmers hoping to boost cash flow with an AgriStability interim payment can now apply to get up to three-quarters of their final payment for 2020. The Saskatchewan and federal governments announced an agreement Friday to increase the 2020 AgriStability interim benefit payment percentage to 75 per cent for producers […]

By Dave Bedard

Saskatchewan crop insurance deadline pushed to mid-April

Mar. 30, 2020 at 8:13 pm CDT

The month-end deadline for Saskatchewan farmers to finalize contracts with the provincial Crown crop insurance agency for 2020 has been moved to April 13. Provincial Agriculture Minister David Marit and federal Ag Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau on Monday announced the extension on farmers’ deadline to “apply, reinstate, cancel or make changes” […]

By GFM Staff

Quebec ag lender offers break on loan payments

Mar. 24, 2020 at 3:06 pm CDT

Quebec’s provincial farm lending agency is set to offer a six-month moratorium on loan repayments to any customers who ask for one, against what it describes as a “crisis” for the ag sector. La Financiere agricole du Quebec (FADQ) said Saturday the six-month stay would help lighten the obligations for […]

By GFM Staff

Saskatchewan pares ag spending in estimates

Mar. 19, 2020 at 1:34 am CDT

Saskatchewan expects to pull back its spending on agriculture by about $22.4 million in its 2020-21 budget year, mainly in a reduced outlay on business risk management (BRM) programs. Provincial Finance Minister Donna Harpauer on Wednesday tabled the province’s 2020-21 spending estimates with the “unusual step” of not including revenue […]

By GFM Staff

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