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 SCIC
Sask. rural municipalities call for wolf bounty program
REGINA — Saskatchewan rural municipal councils recently voted in favour of a wolf bounty, but environment officials said that is not under consideration right now. Cattle producers told the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities annual convention that wolf populations have exploded in some areas. Amanda Burback from the RM of Cote said that in 2022 […] 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
