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Masc Hail Premium Rebate Coming

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The Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation is refunding $669,000 to 1,400 farmers after reviewing its policy on how to treat drowned-out acres for which farmers had purchased hail insurance. The change means farmers will get half their MASC hail insurance premium refunded on acres enrolled in the Canada- Manitoba Excess Moisture Assistance Program (CMEMAP). “Early in
Crops, News

No MASC Hail Coverage On CMEMAP Acres – for Aug. 26, 2010

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Some farmers who have drowned acres are upset they aren’t also eligible for the hail coverage they purchased through the Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation. Crops where Manitoba farmers have claimed $30 an acre under the Canada-Manitoba Excess Moisture Assistance Program (CMEMAP) aren’t eligible for hail coverage through the Mani toba Agr icul tural Services Corporation
Crops, Oilseeds, Weather

Canola Harvest Tips – for Aug. 26, 2010

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Hail late in the season can break pods and bruise seeds. Damaged plants will dry off prematurely. Often the best way to manage canola with late-season hail damage is to swath the crop instead of straight combining. That way damaged pods don’t shell out while the grower waits to straight combine the crop. Also, bruised
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Hail And Thunderstorms

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TABLE 1. Twelve largest recent Canadian hailstorms (losses in millions of dollars) Date Location Sept. 1991 Calgary 343 July 1987 Edmonton July 1996 July 1981 July 1996 July 1996 July 1998 July 1995 Aug. 1998 June 1995 Winnipeg Calgary Calgary Calgary Calgary Calgary Calgary Southern Alberta May 1987 Montreal July 1992 Calgary Insurance losses 148
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Hail Damage Seen Below Average

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Manitoba’s farms saw “relatively light” hail damage during the 2009 growing season, with a near-average number of claims but total hail insurance payouts “well below average.” The Canadian Crop Hail Association, a Prairie hail insurers’ group, last week pegged Manitoba’s total hail insurance payouts for the 2009 season at just $12.2 million, spread over 2,650
News, Weather

Briefs continued…

Interlake shows holes in safety nets: Farm safety net programs such as the federal/provincial AgriStability plan have proven ineffective against multi-year “back-to-back disasters” as seen in Manitoba’s Interlake this summer, according to Keystone Agricultural Producers. Some farmers in the already-waterlogged region were hit with another major storm Aug. 24 that reportedly dropped up to another
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Manitoba Farmers File Hail Claims

The worst hailstorm of the year in Manitoba has resulted in about 600 crop insurance claims so far, the provincial government’s farm insurance corporation said Aug. 18. Damage from the Aug. 14 storm ranges from total crop loss to slight damage, said David Koroscil, manager of insurance projects and sales for Manitoba Agricultural Services Corp.
Crops

Fewer Hail Claims Reported So Far

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Manitoba farmers have filed about 220 hail insurance claims so far this season, according to the July 3 report from the Canadian Crop Hail Association, an insurers’ group. That’s not much more than half last year’s level of almost 400 claims in 2008, considered to be an “about average” year. No severe hail-storms have been

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