Resolution

WHEREAS the Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation’s unseeded acreage feature compensates producers for land that is too wet to seed;

WHEREAS the unseeded acreage feature offers four coverage levels of $50, $70, $85 and $100;

WHEREAS the unseeded acreage feature cannot be used in consecutive years;

BE IT RESOLVED that APAS lobby the provincial and federal governments to extend the eligibility period of the unseeded acreage program to five years or until such a time that a solution is found to the flooded acres on terminal flood basin areas, such as the Quill Lakes Basin.