Insights and Stories on Crop Insurance

Apr. 24, 2017 at 12:16 pm CDT

A coalition of Alberta farm groups calling itself “Team Alberta” is meeting with the province’s agriculture minister and representatives from the Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC) on Wednesday seeking immediate action regarding approximately one million unharvested acres still sitting in farmers’ fields. They are recommending that farmers in the hardest […]

By Staff

Nov. 18, 2016 at 5:14 pm CST

Ontario’s environmental commissioner is calling on the provincial ag ministry to rebuild its soil health expertise and find ways to encourage farmers to adopt soil-friendly production practices, to deal with what she calls a “catastrophic” loss in soil organic matter levels. The report recommends better soil carbon level monitoring and […]

By John Greig

Mar. 21, 2016 at 8:12 pm CDT

Alberta is set to launch Canada’s first crop insurance product for malt barley this year. The province’s Agriculture Financial Services Corp. (AFSC) last week said it will now provide insurance coverage for a malting end-use for growers with malt barley contracts. The coverage is subject to a contract from a […]

By Staff

Dec. 29, 2015 at 7:42 pm CST

Reuters — Global commodities trader Cargill will sell its crop insurance business to the Silveus Insurance Group next month, the two companies said Tuesday. The deal will close the second week in January, said Tyler Silveus, CEO for Silveus, based in Warsaw, Indiana. “We are not disclosing terms of the […]

By Julie Ingwersen

Dec. 23, 2015 at 6:35 pm CST

New Delhi | Reuters — India will launch a new farm crop insurance scheme early next year and use drones and other technologies to assess crop damage, the agriculture minister said Wednesday, in what could be Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first major move to address rural hardship. The impact of […]

By Krishna N. Das