DuPont is offering to take some of the risk of production alongside
farmers.
The company will provide a risk protection package along with its VIP
Farmcare program for growers who buy more than $6,000 of Harmony Total
or Refine Extra this season.
Jay Isberg of DuPont said the new benefit will provide farmers with a
form of product insurance if weather damages their crop.
“We will replace some or all of the product next season if the weather
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fails to co-operate,” said Isberg.
If disease, frost, wildlife, drought, hail, wind, water, fire, snow or
insects affect a grower’s crop, the program may apply.
DuPont will be using existing crop insurance company inspectors. Many
of the same standards will apply.
“If yields are lower than average due to environmental conditions, then
we will help to replace the product used on that crop. Growers need
only to show they used sound agronomic practices to produce the crop.”
The plan provides a benefit if the crop yields less than 50 percent of
the area average or verifiable producer average.
If the producer is enrolled in the program the company will also cover
other products as well, including Champion Extra, Accent, Muster and
Muster Gold 2.
The company has provided the program for 10 years in Australia and last
year ran trials in the Leduc and Vulcan areas of Alberta.
