Producer can’t get crop insurance on native hay

In a good year, Jim Baker can get 1,400 or more round bales of native hay from his land up at Gypsumville in the northern Interlake. But this wasn’t a good year. In fact, it was a disaster. “Not a bale,” is the way Baker describes his native hay crop after unusually heavy summer rains

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“The option should be there for a person who’s treating it as a crop.” – Jim Baker leases another four quarters of privately owned land. You can still get crop insurance on native hay from MASC – the coverage this year is $50 a tonne – but only if you have livestock. And Baker doesn’t.