Farmers that may have crops that are struggling either with poor emergence and/or hail damage may have another option to consider.
Shawn Jacques is President and CEO for Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation and says producers may want to consider grazing it or cutting it for feed.
“They just need to contact a local crop insurance office. We can register what we call a pre-harvest claim and then we will do an appraisal. We allow producers to do what they want with that crop and if they need it they can put it to another use. All they need to do is call one of our offices and we’ll come out and do an appraisal of the production.”
Hay crops have not been as productive given the dry conditions in the south and cool conditions in the north.
That combined with dry pasture conditions for most of the spring and early summer have producers looking to secure extra feed supplies for the winter.
In June, Agriculture Minister David Marit announced an extension to the SCIC greenfeed deadline.
Jacques says that gave producers the opportunity to seed or insure any cereal greenfeed crop up until July 15th.
“Really the intent of that was to give producers an opportunity to secure a feed source for the winter, and we would help cover off some of that risk of that crop that’s being planted.”
Jacques notes about 190 customers have selected the extended greenfeed seeding option.
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