Agricultural insurance Archives

U.S. hail insurer looks northward

By Dave Bedard March 3, 2025

Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Co. of Iowa has made its first venture outside the U.S., buying the 80 per cent of Prairie crop hail insurance firm Palliser Insurance it didn’t already own, for an undisclosed amount. FMH CEO Shannon Rutledge said in a release in February that Palliser’s “regional expertise, knowledge and accomplishments…will contribute to […] Read more

Crops, News

The future of crop insurance

Farmers are finding alternate methods of reducing the risks of yield failure

By Stewart Smyth February 11, 2019

Farming has changed dramatically in the near 50 years that I’ve been involved with it. At age four I started driving the tractor, idled right down in first gear, hauling a wagon while my father loaded straw bales by hand. I’m the king of telling my kids “when I was your age …!” During my […] Read more

Crops, Features

Is private crop insurance a fit for your farm?

Two Sask.-based companies are in the market. Find out how their products work

By Leeann Minogue January 30, 2018

We’re used to dealing with private sector hail insurance companies, or at least seeing their ads. Now two companies, both based in Moose Jaw, Sask., are offering private crop insurance products to cover grain farmers’ risk. You might wonder how private companies could compete against a government-run Crop Insurance program where premiums are government subsidized to the tune […] Read more

Crops, Features

Replace that pencil with an online calculator

Take your homework from page to screen. Online calculators can help you add up production costs and estimate profits

By Angela Lovell March 6, 2017

If you need help planning for the upcoming crop year, there are plenty of online tools on provincial government websites to help. Some of them are in downloadable, customizable Excel spreadsheet format; and others are downloadable software that can producers can save to their computer and customize. With different soil and climate conditions, each Prairie […] Read more

What level of risk are you prepared to take on, and what price will you pay to reduce your overall risk?

Columns, Crops

Production, profitability and protection

The paper side of farming: A successful farm needs to turn a profit every year

By Brian Wittal October 14, 2015

Over the past few months we have seen a number of events unfold around the world that have sent grain markets tumbling, some to four-year lows. Devaluation of the Chinese Yuan, and subsequent sell off in the Chinese stock markets, 10-year lows in oil prices and a six-year low for the Canadian dollar. Overall, across […] Read more

U.S. grains: Grains off highs with fed in focus, soyoil down more than two per cent

Health Canada proposes new restrictions for dicamba on soybeans

ICE Canada Weekly: More declines on horizon for canola

GFM Network News

U.S. grains: Grains off highs with fed in focus, soyoil down more than two per cent

Health Canada proposes new restrictions for dicamba on soybeans

ICE Canada Weekly: More declines on horizon for canola

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U.S. hail insurer looks northward

The future of crop insurance

Is private crop insurance a fit for your farm?

Replace that pencil with an online calculator

Production, profitability and protection

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