When do we want it to keep raining?

[gregpet]

No gooddrum almost all applications would not be processed or completed however, the information required to calculate your margin for 2009 and therefore your reference margin for 2010 has been available for more than a month already.

In fact every year you were able to calculate your reference margin before seeding. Its all a matter of the tools and knowledge or who is preparing these for you and what they provide/don't provide.

[makar]

I think there is a date for crop ins like a best before date. You can seed after that but you lose the frost coverage. Like wheat may be june 1 you seed june 5 expecting full coverage. May be in for a surpise. My take is when it is to late cut your losses. At least fallow leaves you square in the spring, combining late seeded unsellable crop in the spring screws everything. For instance ci grades by the cgc for cwb grades. 52 lb wheat is feed wheat. Elvators discount from 58 lbs. Anyone sold 58 lb wheat to the cwb lately? Any poor grain is sold nonboard. I have been in your boat before, chose a point where to pull the pin. Ci will not help you if you seed late and do not harvest.

[makar]

Freewheat if you cant seed and can get unseeded seed nothing and work out at what ever you can get paid for. You will have peace, as it may be. Good luck, i have been there.

[Hopperbin]

Saskfarmer99 if a farmer continuous crops for say 10 years and now has 50 percent unplanted, is that going to affect the reference margin in any way for 2010?

[Hopperbin]

No, nothing is different for Agristability. In summary, there is no "seeding intensity formula's"

Where the issue lies is if all acres have been insured for crop insurance in 2010 and at 70% or better.

If a producer has not insured all of the acres at 70% or better, and would have been in a yield loss claim in 2010, the claim from crop insurance will be calculated and included as part of the claim year income.