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Cmemap Pays $40.5 Million In Manitoba

By Allan Dawson November 18, 2010

About 1.74 million acres or nearly two per cent of Manitoba cropland was either too wet to seed this spring or the seeded crops drowned, the Manitoba Agr icultural Services Corporation says. The losses prompted $40.5 million in payments to farmers under the Canada-Manitoba Excess Moisture Assistance Program (CMEMAP). “We had applications from all areas

Crops, News

Masc Hail Premium Rebate Coming

By Allan Dawson October 28, 2010

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

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Moisture Money Flows – for Aug. 12, 2010

By Manitoba Government Release August 12, 2010

Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) has paid more than $27.5 million in excess moisture insurance claims under the Agri Insurance program as a result of the extreme wet weather this spring, Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Stan Struthers said Aug. 9. “This payment is the second highest in the history of the Excess Moisture

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Moisture Money Flows – for Aug. 12, 2010

By Manitoba Government Release August 12, 2010

Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) has paid more than $27.5 million in excess moisture insurance claims under the Agri Insurance program as a result of the extreme wet weather this spring, Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Stan Struthers said Aug. 9. “This payment is the second highest in the history of the Excess Moisture

Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Farm Aid Highly Political

By Kevin Hursh July 22, 2010

Why should governments top up crop insurance coverage in a year where there’s a widespread disaster when they wouldn’t likely have the same response if the problem was regional? Amazingly, last week’s annual meeting of federal and provincial agriculture ministers concluded with a detailed program announcement for flooded Prairie farmland. Rarely do governments act so

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Excess Rain Leaves 700,000 Acres Unseeded

By Allan Dawson July 15, 2010

“We’re in the middle of making payments and we’re doing them as quickly as we can. Our adjusters are going like crazy.” – DAVID VAN DEYNZE, MASC About 700,000 acres of Mani toba cropland was too wet to seed this spring, which will trigger $29 million to $30 million in payments to waterlogged farmers through

Livestock, News

Mobile Phones Bring Insurance To Kenyan Farmers

By Anjali Nayar March 18, 2010

Kenyan farmers can now insure some of the costs of growing crops against bad weather by using mobile phone technology that links solar-powered weather stations to an insurance company. Farmers can cover the cost of seeds, fertilizers and pesticides at local agricultural supply shops by paying an extra five per cent of their value. If

Hogs, News

AgriStability Plus In The Works

February 18, 2010

The Manitoba Pork Council is seeking producer feedback on a proposed companion top-up program to AgriStability. AgriStability Plus is based on a full cost-of-production model of the farm instead of being margin based. As a companion to AgriStability, it would be an insurance-based program. Producers would be responsible for the full cost of premiums but

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2009 Corn Crop Insurance By The Numbers

By Allan Dawson February 18, 2010

Corn farmers insured: 560 Insured corn acres: 161,500 Total corn coverage: $51.5 million Corn premium collected: $9.6 million (Farmers paid 40 per cent or $3.8 million, the federal government paid 36 per cent or $3.5 million and Manitoba paid 24 per cent or $2.3 million.) Average probable (long-term average) corn yield: 88.8 bushels an acre

Livestock, News

New Plan To Help Kenyan Pastoralists

By Alister Doyle January 28, 2010

“If it’s successful we will look further afield, in western Africa around the Sahel and southern Asia.” Herders of cows or camels in arid northern Kenya can obtain a new type of insurance against drought – the first of its kind in Africa using satellites to gauge rainfall. Project organizers hope to get about 1,000

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Cmemap Pays $40.5 Million In Manitoba

Masc Hail Premium Rebate Coming

Moisture Money Flows – for Aug. 12, 2010

Moisture Money Flows – for Aug. 12, 2010

Farm Aid Highly Political

Excess Rain Leaves 700,000 Acres Unseeded

Mobile Phones Bring Insurance To Kenyan Farmers

AgriStability Plus In The Works

2009 Corn Crop Insurance By The Numbers

New Plan To Help Kenyan Pastoralists

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