The Assiniboia area of southern Saskatchewan was struck by golfball size hail Tuesday morning, damaging some crops and vehicles. The Assiniboia hailstorm follows a string of storms from last week that struck a wide area of the province, with widespread crop loss. The president of the Canadian Crop Hail Association, Scott McQueen, says the third […]
Many in Assiniboia spent Tuesday afternoon assessing damage after a hailstorm hit the town, two hours south of Regina, on Tuesday morning. Curtis Nelson with Nelson Motors in Assiniboia says the sky got extremely dark around 8 AM with the storm hitting around 9. “It probably hailed for about 10 minutes I would say.” Nelson […]
Hail claim numbers are down significantly this summer across Saskatchewan. The CEO of Co-op Hail, Murray Bantle of Regina, says the number of claims in July is down by 38 percent and the number of hail days is down by 25 percent. However, he says the payout per claim is almost double this year. He […]
Hail has dropped a heavy blow on some areas around Regina Monday night. Garry Brandt farms 10 miles north of Craven, and says the storm blew in just after 8:00 last night. He says the hail was at least golf ball in size, and took out windows on the west side of his house and […]
2021 is a slow year for hail claims so far this growing season in Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan Municipal Hail Insurance CEO Rodney Schoettler says crop damage hail claims are about 20 percent of the 5 year average. He says the low number is due to persistent hot dry weather and the lack of thunderstorms. So […]
Regina-based Co-op Hail has partnered with Winnipeg-based Weatherlogics for hailstorm data sharing in 2021. Co-op Hail’s CEO, Murray Bantle, says farmers will benefit from improved awareness about hail storms across the province. “We’ll have advanced knowledge of maybe the type of hail or kind of storm that it was,” said Bantle. “We still have to […]
Saskatchewan farmers are finally getting a break from hail damaging thunderstorms this summer. The president of the Canadian Crop Hail Association, Rick Omelchenko, says there were only 16 claims of crop damage from hail in the second week of September. He says milder weather has led to minor hail crop damage. “It’s really mild, it’s […]
More than 700 crop damage hail claims have been made across the prairies in the final week of August. The president of the Canadian Crop Hail Association, Rick Omelchenko, says more than 2 dozen communities in Saskatchewan have been hit by hailstorms in the last week of August. He says damage was severe in certain […]
Summer storms have resulted in more than 10 thousand prairie farm claims for crop damage from hail. Canadian Crop Hail Association president Rick Omelchenko says Saskatchewan hail damage claims total 6 thousand, about normal so far this season. He says hail stones range in size from pea to tennis ball and crop damage is from […]
More than 800 crop damage hail claims have been made across the prairies in the second week of August. The president of the Canadian Crop Hail Association, Rick Omelchenko, says more than two dozen Saskatchewan communities have been hit by hailstorms in early August. Omelchenko says damage ranged from light to severe with hail stones […]
