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1974-75

• The Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation was established by Order-in-Council on March 29 to be a corporate structure with staff, policies and procedures to service the ever-increasing number of policy holders insured by the Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Board.
• In 1975, irrigation and extended coverage on unseeded summerfallow introduced.
  
  1979
  
• Fifteen crops were insurable.
  
  1980-81
  
• Participation in Crop Insurance increased to 42,850 premium-earning contracts.
• In 1981, the reseeding benefit was introduced.
  
  1984
  
  
• Winter wheat coverage was added to the program.
  
  1985
  
• Pedigreed seed insurance, honey insurance and the individual coverage option were added and the total number of insurable crops was 18.
• 1985 was also a drought year, generating 77,000 claims.
  
  1986
  
• In 1986, the 25 anniversary of Crop Insurance, 77% of Saskatchewan farmers were insured (49,000 contracts insuring 23 million acres).
• Triticale was introduced as an insurable crop and the Establishment Benefit for fall seeded crops was added.
  
  1987
  
• Major customer service enhancements were put into place. Area offices were renamed customer service offices and the corporation's head office moved to Melville in March.
  
  1988-89
  
• In 1988, 93,000 claims were registered and indemnity payments of $466 million dollars were recorded.
• In 1989, the corporation administered the ad-hoc "Canada-Saskatchewan Greenfeed Program" under which 10,000 customers received nearly $20 million in forage drought assistance.
• Indemnities totalled $450 million.
• The Variable Price Option was added, providing producers with protection from upward movements in grain prices, such as occurred in 1988.