Eligibility

• Insurance for grain corn, open-pollinated corn, and silage corn is available to producers who grow a minimum of five acres of corn in Manitoba.
• All hybrid varieties of grain corn and silage corn are eligible for AgriInsurance coverage. All open-pollinated corn varieties are eligible for AgriInsurance coverage.
• All hybrid varieties of grain corn and open-pollinated corn varieties are eligible for coverage as silage corn. Hybrid silage corn and open-pollinated silage corn will be combined for claim purposes, but not for coverage.
• March 31 is the last day to apply for or make changes to an MASC AgriInsurance policy.

Coverage

• Producers can choose from three coverage levels: 50, 70, or 80 per cent of their probable yield, or Crop Coverage Plus (CCP) that provides up to 90 per cent coverage (excluding silage). 
• Grain corn probable yields are calculated using the producer’s individual 10-year historical yields (a 10-year provincial average is used for new producers). 
• Silage corn uses the individual productivity indexing (IPI) method, which calculates probable yields using a producer’s own 10-year individual yield history compared to the area yields of similar soil types and risk areas in order to stabilize year-to-year variability.
• Corn is insurable in all regions of the province.
• June 30 is the last day to file a Seeded Acreage Report (SAR).
• November 30 is the last day to file a Harvested Production Report (HPR) and register a post-harvest claim without penalty.

Harvesting Corn

If a producer changes their harvest intentions, such as: corn insured as grain changed to be silage or grazed; or corn insured as silage now to be harvested as grain or grazed, the producer must contact MASC to register a claim prior to putting the crop to an alternate use. An MASC adjustor will appraise the crop according to procedures specific to the way the crop was originally insured.

Grazing Corn

Producers growing grain or silage corn varieties for the purpose of fall or winter grazing can insure the corn as silage corn, and have it appraised in the fall to determine if there was a production loss. This appraisal should occur when the corn would normally be silaged.