Excess Moisture Insurance
No fixed amount
Insurance
Description:
Excess Moisture Insurance (EMI) provides protection against the inability to seed land due to continuous excess moisture (flooding or rainfall in the spring).
Comments on Funding:
Continuous Intake
Eligibility:
Applicants must be a food producer with acres that are ready for crop seeding on or before June 20 (including perennial forages, sod and pasture if these acres are destroyed by June 10 and are ready for seeding)
Application Steps:
Applicants must contact Service Centres: https://www.masc.mb.ca/masc.nsf/contact.html
Documentation Needed:
No specific documentation has been identified.
Other Things to Note:
EMI is not provided on the following:
Land under sod, pasture or perennial forage, unless the acreage was destroyed on or before June 10 and is ready for spring seeding.
Fall rye, winter wheat or fall seeded forages.
Land which was not seeded due to excess moisture in the previous year and which could have been worked in that previous year but was not.
Land that MASC has deemed to be uninsurable due to high risk of flooding and/or excess moisture.
Land added to a producer’s contract after March 31 is only eligible for EMI if it was purchased on or before June 30.
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