Insights and Stories on Hail

Late season storms wreak havoc on Prairie crops

Oct. 4, 2024 at 1:23 pm CDT

Severe hailstorms wreaked havoc on crops across Western Canada, bringing an unexpected surge in claims, according to the latest update from the Canadian Crop Hail Association (CCHA).

Hail, strong winds damage Prairie crops

Sep. 6, 2024 at 3:45 pm CDT

By Adam Peleshaty - MarketsFarm

Hail in a yard west of Somerset June 12. PHOTO: ALEXIS STOCKFORD

August storms yield hail claims on Prairie crops

Sep. 3, 2024 at 4:17 pm CDT

By Janelle Rudolph

Hail hits crops at more than 1,600 farms across Prairies

Aug. 23, 2024 at 2:20 pm CDT

By Geralyn Wichers

Cereals withstood storms better: CCHA

Jul. 12, 2024 at 1:07 pm CDT

By MarketsFarm

Alberta crop insurer taps reserve to cut premiums

Jan. 29, 2021 at 4:50 am CST

The reserve at Alberta’s Crown crop insurance agency will be tapped to offset the premiums charged to farmers for the 2021 crop year, and possibly for longer. The province’s Agriculture Financial Services Corp. (AFSC) said Monday its farmer customers will get a 20 per cent discount on crop insurance premiums […]

By Dave Bedard

Alberta’s AFSC to refund hail premiums on drowned crops

Aug. 20, 2020 at 2:34 am CDT

Grain growers in Alberta’s Peace, northeastern and northwestern farming regions whose waterlogged crops are deemed “non-viable” can now file for full refunds on AFSC hail insurance premiums. AFSC, the province’s Agriculture Financial Services Corporation, announced Wednesday it will accept such applications from eligible growers from now until Sept. 11. Applications […]

By Dave Bedard

Unseasonal rain, hail damage winter crops in India

Mar. 16, 2020 at 7:27 pm CDT

New Delhi | Reuters — Unseasonal torrential rains and hailstorms have damaged the winter-planted crops of millions of Indian growers, inundating wheat, potato, chickpea and rapeseed farms in large parts of the fertile northern plains, farmers said. Most farmers were caught by surprise by the repeated rain and hail that […]

By Mayank Bhardwaj

Hail, storm damage to crops during September, October

Oct. 25, 2019 at 10:10 am CDT

Despite temperatures largely below normal for September and October, there were some instances of hail damage to crops in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The Canadian Crop Hail Association (CCHA) said there were 53 cases of hail damage – as well as storm damage – in the two provinces. In Manitoba, storms […]

By MarketsFarm Team

Storms leave close to 1,000 hail claims on Prairies

Sep. 27, 2019 at 8:18 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — There were almost 1,000 claims for hail damage across the Prairies following a series of storms Sept. 15-20, according to the Canadian Crop Hail Association (CCHA). The CCHA said the most destructive of the storms during that week came on Sept. 17. “There is significant damage from this […]