Select Hay Insurance
Select Hay Insurance provides maximum insurance coverage for producers who experience a forage production shortfall or quality loss due to designated perils.
Select Hay Insurance is available to Manitoba hay producers.
Offered by Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation
Amount
Coverage levels of 70 or 80 per cent of Probable Yield; premiums shared 40 per cent by the producer, 36 per cent by the Government of Canada, and 24 per cent by the Province of Manitoba
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Who can apply
- Select Hay Insurance is available to Manitoba hay producers.
- This program provides insurance for a production shortfall or quality losses for alfalfa, alfalfa grass mixtures, tame grasses, sweet clover, and coarse hay.
- To be eligible for coverage, there must be at least five acres of the hay type grown.
- All hay types must have greater than 75 per cent ground cover to qualify for insurance.
- MASC adjustors may inspect fields to determine the type of hay and whether it qualifies for insurance.
- For coverage and claim calculations, each hay type is a separate insurable crop with no offsetting between hay types.
Insurable Crop Types and Relative Feed Values
Crop Type: Alfalfa; Crop Type Definition: Includes stands of 75 per cent or more alfalfa.; Relative Feed Value (RFV): RFV 105
Crop Type: Alfalfa Grass Mixture; Crop Type Definition: Includes stands of between 25 and 75 per cent alfalfa.; Relative Feed Value (RFV): RFV 95
Crop Type: Grasses; Crop Type Definition: Includes stands of 75 per cent or more tame grasses.; Relative Feed Value (RFV): RFV 85
Crop Type: Sweet Clover; Crop Type Definition: Only includes sweet clover the year after establishment.; Relative Feed Value (RFV): RFV 95
Crop Type: Coarse Hay; Crop Type Definition: Stands of native hay and other hay used for livestock feed that consists of less than 75 per cent tame hay. Does not include bulrushes and other species of low feed value.; Relative Feed Value (RFV): RFV 75
About the funding
- There are separate premium rates for each provincial forage region and each hay type under Select Hay Insurance.
- Forage stands less than or equal to four years of age and those over four years of the same hay type will be charged the same premium per acre, but will have separate Probable Yields (expected yield per acre).
- Premiums are shared 40 per cent by the producer, 36 per cent by the Government of Canada, and 24 per cent by the Province of Manitoba.
- Probable Yield is based on an individualās 10-year yield history (Individualized Coverage) and is calculated separately for each crop type, and in the case of alfalfa, alfalfa grass mixtures, and tame grasses, by age of stand (less than or equal to four years old and those over four years old).
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- Producers are assigned to the Forage Region in which their farm has the most forage acres.
- Coverage levels of 70 or 80 per cent of Probable Yield may be selected.
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