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Agriculture Roundup for Tuesday December 20, 2022

It was a busy year for the Canadian Crop Hail Association (CCHA).

With increasing input costs, inflation and stronger crop prices farmers bought a record-setting $10 billion in insurance coverage.

Insurance payments to prairie producers topped $265 million with producer premiums totaling more than $375 million.

The CCHA reported Saskatchewan had a 68 per cent loss ratio, compared to 133 per cent in 2021.

The final report of the season said farmers who waited to purchase hail coverage late in 2022 likely had a problem finding it due to the unanticipated 20 per cent increase in demand.

CCHA president Scott McQueen added producers should plan for their 2023 insurance needs early.

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Michael Hinton is an agricultural heritage advocate, songwriter and 2025 National Agricultural Hall of Fame inductee based in Hutchinson, Kansas. Widely known as “America’s Antique Tractor Ambassador,” Hinton has combined his passion for vintage farm machinery, agricultural history, and storytelling to celebrate the people, equipment and rural communities that have helped shape American agriculture.

Through Hinton Songworks, Hinton writes and produces country, Christian-country, inspirational, and holiday music inspired by rural life, faith, family, hard work, dreams, and the experiences that connect generations. His songwriting serves as a creative extension of his agricultural preservation work, giving a musical voice to many of the stories, emotions, and memories behind the “old iron” he has spent years celebrating.