A reader feels corporate farming operations should not be treated equally when it comes to crop insurance because they pay a much lower tax rate.
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Letters to the editor – July 3, 2025
Good time to consider government support for private crop insurance
The current federal-provincial ag support framework will need to be renewed soon. Now is the time to talk about what the next framework might include.
Crop insurance coverage sags in Saskatchewan as price estimates fall
Crop insurance coverage sags in Saskatchewan as price estimates fall
Yield coverage and premiums per acre will vary from one producer to the next, but for most producers, crop insurance coverage will be lower in 2025 due to lower commodity prices.
Crop insurance prices fall for 2025, no new programs
Provincial and federal governments say they will continue to work on improving coverage for the livestock sector
The 2025 Saskatchewan crop insurance program announced this week includes lower prices for most crops and no new programs or changes.
Premiums to drop
The provincial and federal governments unveiled the 2025 AgriInsurance program at Manitoba Ag Days.
The provincial and federal governments unveiled the 2025 AgriInsurance program at Manitoba Ag Days.
Sure-profit cropping options hard to find
The years of no-brainer cropping options appear to have ended, at least for now. The growing season ahead doesn’t offer the certain profits of previous times. Weather and markets are unpredictable, but in recent years you could contract a profitable price on many crops and with correspondingly high crop insurance prices, you could go a […] Read more
Sask. Party looks for fifth consecutive term
Leader Scott Moe says support for him in the province’s rural constituencies also comes with questions about his record
REGINA — Farm voters looking for specific agricultural promises in the Saskatchewan Party provincial election platform might be disappointed. The party that relies on farmers as a large part of its base is offering little in the way of new policies or spending if it returns to power. It has long had its strongest support […] Read more
Farmers spend money on hail coverage this year
Customers take out an average of $230 per acre and do it earlier than normal, a trend seen since ‘hectic’ 2021’ season SASKATOON — Farmers have been active buyers of hail insurance the past three years, says an industry official.Interest in the product jumped after a “pretty hectic” 2021 hail season when there was plenty […] Read more
![[U.S.] federal crop insurance is beginning to resemble federal dairy policy: arcane, costly and incomprehensible to all but the subsidized few. | File photo](https://static.producer.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/02131356/10-drought-wheat-660x420.jpg)
Smoke, mirrors and deceit drive U.S. crop insurance changes
A longstanding complaint in the United States is the utter incomprehensibility of federal milk pricing policy. For years we’ve joked — mostly through our tears — that only four people in the world understand its complexity and, worse, not one of them is a dairy farmer. As if to prove our point, the U.S. Department […] Read more
Sask. farmer pans move to individual premiums
Crop insurance changed last year and consecutive drought years have pushed premiums too high, he says
REGINA — Saskatchewan’s move to individual crop insurance premiums was widely welcomed when introduced last year but at least one farmer said he preferred the program the way it was. Don Tremblay, who farms south of Moose Jaw and is reeve of the Rural Municipality of Hillsborough, said he believes the change has not been […] Read more
