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Flood Aid On The Way For Wet, Weary Farmer

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Curtis McRae had completely finished seeding by mid-May, two weeks ahead of normal. Then the rain came. When it finally stopped, nearly two-thirds of McRae’s 4,000 acres lay under water. McRae, who farms near Clandeboye, estimates 60 per cent of his canola crop is gone. So is 20 per cent of his wheat. He expects
Crops, Livestock, News

Flood Aid From Ag Ministers’ Meeting?

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“We’re not arguing about whether or not (there’s a problem) it’s how to deal with it.” – IAN WISHART It seems no one is quibbling with the scale of the disaster of soaked, unseeded fields and drowned crops in Western Canada this year. The ongoing debate right now is how best to respond. Ian Wishart,
Crops, News

Duff Roblin (1917-2010): Manitoba Crop Insurance Pioneer

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“Farmers at the time were not insurance oriented at all.” – HAYDEN TOLTON To most Manitobans, former premier Duff Roblin’s main legacy will always be Duff’s Ditch – the floodway diverting spring run off from the Red River around Winnipeg that has saved the city many times. But Roblin, who died last week at 92,
Crops, News

KAP Explores Weather-Indexed Production Insurance

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“I guess it really boils down to kind of a philosophical discussion over who should be delivering crop insurance.” – NEIL HAMILTON If Manitoba farmers could’ve insured against a killing frost occurring in late August, many would’ve, suspects Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) president Ian Wishart. Fortunately, the frost held off and disaster was averted. Farmers
Crops, News

App Application Deadlines Extended

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Manitoba corn, sunflower, soybean, edible bean and pulse growers with crops still on the field have been granted extensions on their deadlines to apply under the 2009 advance payments program (APP). Producers who still have unharvested crop that’s insured by crop insurance will now have more time to apply for pre-production advances and also to
Crops, News

Manitoban Teaches Crop Adjusting In Ukraine

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Some people golf or lie on the beach, but Doug Wilcox spent a week of his July vacation in Ukraine teaching would-be crop insurance adjusters. “My role was not just teaching the hands-on crop adjusting, but the science behind crop adjusting,” said Wilcox, manager of program development for Crop Insurance Products at the Manitoba Agricultural
Crops, Livestock

Cattle Producers Call For Price Insurance Coverage

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“This is an area where we’ve been short every time.” – MARTIN UNRAU, MCPA Canada’s free-enterprise cattle producers have taken a radical step in risk management by asking for a government-run price insurance program. The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association recently called for a national cattle price and basis insurance program to guard against drastic dips in
Crops, News

Alta. Boosts AgriInsurance Benefits For 2009

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Increased benefits for unseeded acreage and reseeding, plus coverage for a couple of additional crops, are among the changes planned for Alberta’s crop production insurance in 2009. AgriInsurance, as crop insurance has been dubbed as part of the federal/provincial Growing Forward framework, is offered in Alberta through the province’s Agriculture Financial Services Corp. (AFSC). For
Crops, News

GRIP Didn’t Die, It Just Went South

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“Because all these minimum prices (under the program) were so high in ’08, almost regardless of yield there was a crop insurance claim on virtually every single farm in the northern half of the U. S.” – MIKE KRUEGER As Mike Krueger explained the Crop Revenue Insurance program to which farmers have access in the

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