Resolution

WHEREAS Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation uses a network of weather stations to calculate claims for weather-based insurance products, including the Forage Rainfall Insurance Program;

WHEREAS variable precipitation can result in large discrepancies between the data used to calculate claims and the rainfall amounts recorded at the insured land location;

BE IT RESOLVED that APAS lobby Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation to install additional weather stations throughout the Province to more accurately represent rainfall amounts for the calculation of benefits under the Forage Rainfall Insurance Program.