Frost- and hail-related quality losses put apples in third place for highest claims at $15.5 million. Apples were followed by fresh market vegetable claims of $11.3 million and claims of $5.6 million) for tomatoes.
More than 14,000 Ontario farms buy insurance from Agricorp annually on $7 billion worth of production. There are about 48,000 farms in Ontario, according to Statistics Canada.
Overall in the province, farmers in Lambton County claimed the biggest soybean insurance pay-out of almost $7.6 million, while Middlesex farmers collected the top corn payout of $3.3 million.
Timiskaming region farmers claimed the province’s biggest winter wheat payout of $453,000.
In Southwestern Ontario, Niagara farmers had the highest winter wheat payout of $222,000.
Click here to see more...