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To be eligible for an establishment claim for spring seeded crops, a minimum of 10 acres or 10 per cent of the total acres seeded to the insurable crop, whichever is less, must have failed to establish. Crops that fail to adequately establish or suffer significant damage due to insurable causes before June 20 are eligible for establishment benefits of:

• $20 per acre for cereals, coriander, Khorasan wheat, flax and mustard (all classes)
• $25 per acre for canola and sunflowers
• $30 per acre for pulses (fababeans, field peas and all classes of drybeans, lentils and chickpeas)

Crops damaged before June 20 will be eligible for an Establishment Benefit only, even if you report the damage as yield loss after June 20.

If you believe it is necessary to reseed or work down a portion of your insured crop prior to June 20, contact Crop Insurance immediately. An adjuster must inspect those acres prior to reseeding or
destroying the acres.

Insurance may be purchased on the reseeded acres even if the crop was not previously selected. If the reseeded crop was previously selected, those acres will continue to be insured. To be eligible for insurance, reseeded crops must abide by Crop Insurance’s seeding deadlines. For organic crops, see the Organic Reseeding Benefit.

The Forage Establishment Benefit Option and Diversification Establishment is also available for forage and diversified crops.