A 10-year-old Saskatchewan initiative to reduce sheep losses to predators has expanded its RFID technology acceptance
A change to the Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corp.’s RFID Sheep Policy is making participation easier for sheep producers. The pilot began in 2014 with a goal to provide producers with a goal to compensate producers for predation and to prove without physical evidence that an animal was missing. To do so, it used data from […] Read moreTag Archives Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corp.
Pilot hunting program to help with wildlife damage
Landowners in five rural Sask. areas will have access to more licences
REGINA — A new pilot program in five Saskatchewan rural municipalities is launching to help landowners deal with excessive wildlife damage. The Big Game Management Extended Hunt will occur Nov. 1-10 in the RMs of Livingstone, Hazel Dell, Kelvington, Bjorkdale and Leask. Each of these will have 50 antlerless elk licences available in addition to […] Read more
Wild pig experts divided over extent of the problem
Officials working to eradicate the invasive species disagree with a researcher’s belief that populations are widespread
How big is Western Canada’s wild pig problem? It became obvious at Canada’s first Wild Pig Summit that experts are split on the issue, divided over almost every aspect of the situation. Recent wild pig stories: “They’re not super-pigs,” complained Darby Warner of the Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corp. after hearing a presentation by the University […] Read more
Hope remains for national livestock insurance
Sask. ag minister optimistic the Livestock Price Insurance program will eventually go national as more provinces join
UPDATED – March 20, 2024 – 1530 CST – new Livestock Price Insurance graphic added. Saskatchewan agriculture minister David Marit has said he remains hopeful that the Livestock Price Insurance program will someday be truly national. LPI is currently available in the prairie provinces and British Columbia. In the LPI program, a producer pays a […] Read more
Sask. farm group asks for drought committee
The Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan says the province needs to do more to prepare for drought
WINNIPEG — Saskatchewan needs to prepare for drought. Not just in 2024 but for future droughts as well, says the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan. That’s why APAS is asking for a Provincial Drought Preparedness Committee, which will help farmers and the province respond more effectively to dry and difficult conditions. “The whole idea is […] Read more
Sask. crop insurance premiums drop
WINNIPEG — Saskatchewan farmers made about 14,200 crop insurance claims in 2023, which correlates to $1.85 billion in crop insurance payments. That is significantly less than 2021, a year of extreme drought in Western Canada, when Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corp. paid out $2.3 billion worth of claims just for annual crops. Thanks to another year […] Read more
Crop insurance costs explode
WINNIPEG — If crop insurance payments to Canadian farmers were put on a line graph, from 2018 to 2022 the graph would look like a hockey stick. Statistics Canada data shows that crop insurance gross payments were $890 million in 2018. By 2021 that figure had climbed to $3.8 billion and then hit $4.897 billion […] Read more
Producers urged to use forage rainfall insurance in Sask.
Program insures pastures when precipitation is 80 percent of normal during drought years, but few ranchers participate
There are a lot of misconceptions about the Forage Rainfall Insurance Program, an official with the Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corp. said recently. She attributes this to the program being around for decades and changing over time. “Some people who were participating in the program 25 years ago and have given up on it because they […] Read more
