MASC Assessing Frost Claims

Jun 01, 2021

As of Monday afternoon, Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) had registered over 300 frost claims from last week.

David Van Deynze is Chief Product Officer with MASC.

"I think overall, generally speaking, it maybe wasn't quite as severe as we were thinking it could have been, certainly with the forecast that was going on...In some cases it maybe didn't get quite as cold as they were predicting and secondly I just don't think there was enough, or as many acres that were out of the ground or vulnerable crop acres that were out of the ground that could have been impacted by frost."

He says canola was the hardest hit.

"Certainly canola was the major one for sure, it's the majority of acres and of course is a crop that doesn't like a lot of frost," added Van Deynze. "We had some soybean acres as well that were impacted but canola was by far the biggest crop."

Van Deynze says the Interlake and Parkland regions seemed to be hardest hit by the frost event last week.

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