unseeded acreage payments

[skhadenuf]

Just wondering if anyone knows what Rms will qualify for the unseeded acreage payments (cover crop 15 bucks) and which will not. My understanding is that due to the lack of funding commitmnet by our NEW government only certain Rm's will qualify. Apparently 52 million has been allocated for 4 years. According to some of the figures thrown around last year 78 million was spent and there are nearly the same acres this year. So actually there is not even enough funding for this year and you may actually have more acres unseeded than your neighbor across the road in another Rm but because your Rm is not designated as to recieve you're SOL. Must have been the same government mathematician that calculated this out as the calculation of the 400 million joke to cover increase in production costs.

[kamichel]

And the fact that it is only paid to growers enrolled in crop insurance is also out of line.

[kamichel]

I would disagree with you Kamichel, if you aren't doing your best to protect yourself, you shouldn't get a handout.

[kamichel]

Crop insurance is an insurance system designed with a premium and a coverage. Why should just farmers who have taken crop insurance only be allowed to get an extra payment from the government. Well I don't really have that many unseeded acres anyway but I am just angry at the idea that crop insurance users only should get a disaster type of payment.

[SASKFARMER3]

The problem is Saskatchewan. We have the Worlds not Canada's worst Crop insurance system out their. It was designed by the original CCF's to make money for the province of Saskatchewan and Not help farmers in time off need.
now we have a Useless Lorne Calvert who only cares about getting reelected and that is the Cities, so that's where he is concentrating on.
So yes any one who is expecting to qualify for a program should protect them selves with some sort of insurance but when that insurance is Sask Crop Insurance their is an exception.

[kamichel]

Thought Sask. Crop ins. was costing the government. The first time in history that Crop ins. made some money was with the verifying of acres for carbon trading.

[jensend]

how much of the actual premium do the two senior levels of govt. pay these days? maybe producers should look at the real premium ratio instead of just what they pay in order to see what the real risk is in grain farming. the problem isn't so much in how large the premiums are as in how slim the margins are. if the margins are knife edge thin then there is no room for risk. why are the margins so narrow? because most farmers are locked into a production system with no flexibility so you have to have glyphosate, fertilizer (adding more nutrients as time goes on), disease control, increasing weed control and as you get bigger to cope with small margins the machinery demands get bigger. to top it all off this govt. is not going to be any more helpful than previous because it doesn't matter in getting elected so i doubt canada will ever see an american style farm bill.

[skhadenuf]

There has been talk last year and again this year that in Manitoba there is a different system for flood compensation. Just wondering what the level of payment is from the provincial crop insurance and the federal gov. Have heard that there is some sort of premium and coverage is 90 bucks an acre and the 15 bucks on top of that, is this correct?