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The Wildlife Damage Compensation Program provides:
- 80% compensation on damage caused by white-tailed deer, mule deer, antelope, elk, bear, moose, bison, ducks, geese and sandhill cranes that have not been held in captivity.
- Compensation for cleaning costs required for excreta-contaminated grain. An additional handling allowance of $6.30/tonne will now be paid to producers who submit a receipt for cleaning their excreta-contaminated grain. Compensation will continue to be paid on 80 per cent of the damaged crop.
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| Crop Insurance has determined that your barley crop has been contaminated be excreta. You are compensated at a rate of $16.82/tonne for 80 per cent of the grain that requires cleaning. If you submit your receipt to Crop Insurance after your grain has been cleaned, you will receive an additional$6.30/tonne for 80 per cent of the total amount of grain cleaned on the receipt. |
You must register a wildlife damage claim and your damaged acres must be inspected by Crop Insurance before your grain is cleaned.
Claims per crop must be a minimum $100. There are no costs or premiums paid by the producer. Under the Agriculture Policy Framework, the wildlife program is funded 60% by the federal government and 40% by the provincial government and is administered by Crop Insurance.
Claims are assessed and paid by Crop Insurance. Payments are based on the forecast market price for the grade of the crop that has suffered damage, reflecting actual harvested quality. Effective September 2007, the rate calculation has been adjusted to better reflect the yearly grain pricing. Initial compensation rates will not be paid at 75 per cent of the surveyed spot price set in September. An ongoing survey will be conducted from September to February each year to determine a six-month average selling price. Producers who have registerd a wildlife damage claim will be compensated the following spring for the amount owing based on the new price.
Claims can be registered and adjusted for damage incurred at any time of the year. However, you must have the damaged acres adjusted before they can be harvested.
All Saskatchewan producers are eligible to receive compensation for these crop losses through the Wildlife Damage Compensation Program; you do not have to be a Crop Insurance customer to receive compensation. However, if you are a Crop Insurance customer, please be aware that wildlife losses will no longer affect your Long Term Individual Yield. Instead, your yield before damage will now be used to calculate your long term yield.
Eligible crops include:
- All seeded commercial crops including crops not currently insured by Crop Insurance
- Stacked hay, silage bales and honey
- Market gardens, tree nurseries, sod farms and leaf cutter bees
Compensation is not paid on:
- Volunteer crops
- Crops planted too late in the season to produce a normal yield
- Crops seeded on land considered unsuitable for crop production
Compensation is not paid where private sector insurance is available. For example, producers with bear damage to honey bees and bee structures will not be compensated since private insurance is available for bear damage.
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Producer Obligations |
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To qualify for compensation, producers are required to allow hunters reasonable access to farmland. Saskatchewan Environment conservation officers will determine whether or not fair access has been granted and make recommendations to Crop Insurance.
Compensation will not be denied if it is reasonable to restrict access to:
- Protect persons, buildings or property
- Protect livestock in a manner consistent with normal livestock operations
- Control and/or restrict vehicle travel
- Manage or limit the number of hunters
Producers must implement prevention measures offered by Saskatchewan Environment using all reasonable options to control and limit wildlife damage. These measures include:
- Working with local conservation officers to protect stacked feed, silage, sod farms, market gardens, bee structures and hay from big game animals
- Harvesting early in the fall to avoid over-winter damage
- Using scare cannons to control waterfowl damage
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Claims |
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Contact your customer service office prior to harvesting any damaged crop so that the damage can be assessed. Compensation provided is on a spot-loss basis; compensation will be based on the yield-loss of the crop in the damaged area.
If you are unable to harvest and further damage occurs after inspection, call your customer service office for a reassessment. The entire damaged portion of the crop must not be harvested prior to inspection and be standing or in swaths.
If you must combine before an adjuster can inspect the crop, the entire damaged area plus a representative portion of the undamaged crop must be left for inspection. Checkstrips are not acceptable.
If you have not made every effort to complete harvest in a timely fashion, compensation will not be paid. This may include denying any claims where damage occurred after harvest was generally completed in the area.
As soon as damage is detected in stacked hay, sod farms, tree nurseries, market gardens and bee structures, notify Crop Insurance. You will be compensated for damage to hay stacks if all reasonable prevention measures have been implemented including those recommended by Saskatchewan Environment. All hay must be stacked to receive compensation; producers will not be compensated for bales or hay swaths left in the field.
If staff is not available to take your call at the customer service office, please leave a message. During harvest, messages are monitored after business hours and on weekends and adjusters are available on short notice to assess damage.
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