Heavy rain and snow from late season storms is slowing down crop hail damage adjustments. The president of the Canadian Crop Hail Association, Rick Omelchenko, is asking farmers to be patient and leave adequate check-strips for adjusters. He says an adequate check strip for crop damage is at least 20 by 30 feet in the […]
Hail storm activity in Saskatchewan for the first half of September is described as moderate with minor to heavy crop damage. The president of the Canadian Crop Hail Association, Rick Omelchenko, says there were over 530 prairie hail claims in the first two weeks of this month, with about two-thirds from Saskatchewan. He says the […]
A farmer near Ituna says a vicious hail storm swept the area Tuesday night. Ituna area farmer Adrienne Ivey says several crops were wiped out by the hailstorm, which ran on a narrow path of destruction. She says the hail was accompanied by heavy rain. Ivey says the hail was toonie-sized and very rough, looking […]
Saskatchewan farmers faced scattered hail damage during the first week of September. The chair of the Canadian Crop Hail Association, Rick Omelchenko, says there were 500 prairie hail damage claims in the first week of September, and more than 250 were from Saskatchewan. Omelchenko says the hail damage was across a wide area of the […]
Hail storm activity in Saskatchewan is being called sporadic for late August. Canadian Crop Hail Association President Rick Omelchenko says there were 700 hail claims for crop loss across the prairies in the last two weeks of August. He says many of the claims were in southern Saskatchewan. He says the storms affected various areas […]
Environment Canada Meteorologist Shannon Moodie, says the line of storms that went through Saskatchewan on Thursday brought pea and quarter sized hail to the Tugaske area and golf ball sized hail at Parkbeg. She said the storms were moving quite slowly, so they do expect there were areas of localized flooding. “The highest amount of […]
Close to 2 thousand crop hail claims have been filed in Saskatchewan from storms earlier this month. The president of the Canadian Crop Hail Association, Rick Omelchenko, says some of the worst storms hit across a wide area in the middle of July. Omelchenko says the hail stones were pea to tennis ball in size, […]
The latest provincial crop report says Saskatchewan farmers faced some wild weather this past week. Provincial crops analyst Cory Jacob says hail, severe winds and heavy rain caused some crop damage. He says there was hail in several areas including Eston, Ogema, Kindersley and Rosetown. Jacob says Frobisher, about 250 kilometers southeast of Regina, […]
The chair of the Canadian Crop Hail Association, Rick Omelchenko, says hail claims have been pouring in this month from farmers, mostly in the southern part of the Saskatchewan grainbelt. He says there are over 820 claims across the prairies, with more than half from Saskatchewan during the past 2 weeks. He says areas affected […]
More than 1,000 crop damage hail claims have been made in Saskatchewan from storms around the July 1st long weekend. The field operations manager with Saskatchewan Municipal Hail Insurance, Darryl Tiefenbach, said the worst storm was in the Rosetown-Elrose area of west central Saskatchewan. “The Rosetown and Elrose area that had a high wind where […]
