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The production and inventory information required for AgriStability should be tracked regardless of your enrolment in the program.
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AgriStability enrolment deadline extended

One more chance to sign up, as farm program deadline extended to July 2, 2019

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May 1, when most producers were in the field or preparing to get there, the federal government announced the 2019 AgriStability program year enrolment deadline would be extended to July 2, 2019. The extension was in response to the canola dispute with China and gives producers a second opportunity to review their financial risk management […] Read more
Knowing your crop insurance coverage for the coming year is key in setting up your marketing plan.
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Making your farm plans for the year

Price expectations and your risk management strategy impact your marketing plan

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How is your plan for the coming year? What will you seed? How do your break-even numbers crunch out? What are new-crop pricing prospects? Should you be doing some pre-pricing to secure profits? What’s your crop risk management strategy? Starting with your initial seeding plan, pencil out your costs of production and do a break-even […] Read more
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AgriStability program changes

These changes to AgriStability could benefit farmers joining or re-joining the program

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Whether you’re in the AgriStability program or considering getting into the AgriStability program, it’s important that you understand a few program changes that have been made recently. First, a quick review of how the program works. In simple terms, AgriStability calculates your profit history, based on your income and your allowable expenses (this includes expenses […] Read more
Insuring intercrops in Manitoba
Crops, Features

Insuring intercrops in Manitoba

Manitoba farmers can now insure intercrops and also get incentives to grow them

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In response to requests from producers for some kind of insurance on unconventional crops such as quinoa or multi-species crops like intercrops, Manitoba Agricultural Insurance Corporation (MASC) has introduced a new insurance product for what it calls ‘novel crops.’ At a recent intercropping workshop at Brandon in November, Robert Manastyr spoke on behalf of MASC […] Read more
Emerging corn plants in Canada. (Sophie-Caron/iStock/Getty Images)
Corn, Crops, Weather

Saskatchewan offers up corn rainfall insurance plan

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Saskatchewan’s crop insurance offerings for 2019 will include a new program allowing corn growers to insure against a substantial drop in moisture. The provincial and federal government on Feb. 26 rolled out Saskatchewan’s 2019 crop insurance program, in which coverage levels on average are to reach a record $230 per acre, up from $216 last […] Read more
A CRMS helps you maximize production capabilities, and make better agronomic and weather-related decisions
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Building a crop risk management strategy

A crop risk management strategy is your plan to protect your farm from unexpected loss

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What is a crop risk management strategy? It’s a fancy name for what do you do on your farm to protect yourself from production and/or revenue loss. What do you use as part of a CRMS? Crop insurance, AgriStability, hail insurance, Global Ag Risk Solutions (revenue protection insurance), Just Solutions (business interruption insurance), or maybe […] Read more
Lodged wheat after a heavy storm.
Crops, News

The future of crop insurance

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

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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

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