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What are the final seeding dates
for crop insurance coverage?
Can I insure canola or other crops
back-to-back?
If the crop doesn't come up, why
don't you pay me full liability?
If the growing conditions are very poor, why don't you "write-off" the crop and let me salvage what I can?
If it is really dry in the spring, why
must I seed into dust to have insurance?
If the first crop germinates and dies, why
do you make me re-seed?
Due to conditions, if it
doesn't look like it will pay to fertilize/spray/control hoppers/control disease,
am I still covered?
What about this whole business of soil conservation? Don't the insurance rules
(requiring customers to seed into dust to get insurance and re-seeding if the
first crop fails) cause soil erosion? Is Crop Insurance promoting bad
farm practices?
Wouldn't producers and Crop Insurance be financially further
ahead if crop insurance paid
producers to not seed? To summerfallow might
be better and there is less risk to Crop Insurance.
A producer who does not want to seed into dust DOES incur some expense. There
is the cost of cleaning seed, fall applied chemical, fertilizer, etc. Therefore,
it's not necessarily correct to say that insurance is intended to cover expenses
since there is no insurance to cover these expenses if I don't seed. I don't
pay if it's too wet to seed (presumably to cover off some seeding expenses),
so why do we pay if it's too dry to
seed?
Because of the lack of moisture, I am short of pasture. I would
like to pasture fields I normally cut for tame hay. What are my options?
Where will I find the monthly precipitation
levels for the rainfall programs?
What are the criteria for summerfallow
coverage?
When is the deadline to report
my seeded acres?
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