Canada crop insurance News

Insurtech, Data Help Canadian Farmers Cut Lending, Insurance Costs

Canadian farmers — grappling with with lower crop income, adverse weather and a trade dispute with China — are using precision-agriculture technology aimed at reducing lending and insurance costs. Collecting intricate crop data allows individual farmers to outline potentially limited …

Crop Insurer Says Saskatchewan Had 25% Fewer Acres That Were Too Wet to Plant

Saskatchewan, Canada’s largest wheat and canola producer, had 25 percent fewer acres that were too wet to plant this year, the province’s insurer said. A total of 1.5 million acres of an approximate 27 million acres of insured farmland has …