The latest Saskatchewan agriculture crop report says harvest has just begun in the province. Provincial crops extension specialist Matt Struthers says only a few fields have been combined so far this month, mostly in the west central and southwest regios. In eastern areas, he says harvest is at lest seven to ten days away […]
Crop insurance adjusters have been out in full force across Western Canada after storms earlier this month damaged crops across the region. Due to storms that occurred between July 4 and 11, the Canadian Crop Hail Association is investigating more than 1,102 claims of crop damage during the period. CCHA President Scott McQueen of Palliser […]
Crop damage claim numbers from June hailstorms in Saskatchewan are above normal. The president of the Canadian Crop Hail Association, Scott McQueen, says claim numbers are up but damage is generally light, although some areas had severe loss. Hail ranged from pea to baseball in size. McQueen says crop hail claims in the final […]
It was anything but a quiet night in Saskatchewan. Nearly the entire southern half of the province was under a thunderstorm watch or a warning, with some communities experiencing tornado warnings. Environment Canada’s Danielle Desjardins says they have not received any reports of any official tornadoes in the province from Thursday night as of yet, […]
It was anything but a calm quiet Sunday in southeast Saskatchewan. A storm popped up that created heavy winds, hail, and thunderstorms. James Colangelo from Environment Canada says there were reports of flooding and tree damage in Kipling. There were also reports of baseball sized hail in Corning, tennis ball sized hail in Langbank and […]
Mild weather in mid-September has brought relief to hail adjusters following a challenging storm season in late August and the first couple days of this month. The president of the Canadian Crop Hail Association, Scott McQueen, says there were 47 hail damage claims from storms between September 5th and 15th. He says the light damage […]
Co-op Hail is expected to wrap up adjusting hail claims Friday from widespread storms in late August and early September. Chief Operating Officer Dan Anderson says the loss was extensive, with his office facing 227 claims valued at about $5-million from the last day of August and the first of September. Anderson says the storms […]
Hail adjusters are scrambling to deal with a large number of crop damage claims from late August and early September. The president of the Canadian Crop Hail Association, Scott McQueen, says crop damage claims from hail total over 1,500 from widespread storms in late August and early September. He says the costly storms ranged from […]
The final week of August saw extensive hail damage across Saskatchewan. The CEO of Saskatchewan Municipal Hail Insurance, Rodney Schoettler, says over one million acres of crop sustained hail damage in the last week of August. Schoettler says the hail storms in late August affected a wide area ranging from Assiniboia to Yorkton and Kindersley. […]
The last day of August was marked by Regina getting hit with a storm that produced golf ball to pea sized hail throughout the city. The system bringing rain and hail hit shortly around 7 p.m. A tornado warning had been out for the Moose Jaw, Pense and Rouleau areas, but no such warning […]
