Your responsibilities
- Have a contract with a seed processing company recognized by the Seed Corn Growers of Ontario.
- Follow good farm management practices. If your practices contribute to a production loss, you may lose some or all of your insurance coverage.
- Meet all deadlines to ensure that your Production Insurance contract remains in good standing.
- Contact us if your business structure changes, including changes to name, address, shareholders and farm management practices.
- Report damage as soon as it occurs.
- Insure your full crop. All acres of seed corn you plant must be enrolled in Production Insurance.
Insurable varieties
All varieties of seed corn that have been reported to and accepted by Agricorp.
Planting dates
There are established planting dates for various areas of Ontario based on crop heat units, soil characteristics, historical claim rates, and other geographical characteristics. The final planting date is the last day that a crop can be planted and still qualify for Production Insurance coverage.
Landlord/sharecrop arrangements
Coverage is available to both landlords and sharecroppers based on their respective shares of the crop. Members of an arrangement can decide independently whether to insure their own shares but may not insure the share belonging to the other member.
If you insure a share in a crop that does not belong to you and a claim results, your claim will be based on your share only and the premium on the uninsured share is forfeited.
Shared equity option (SEO)
SEO is another enrolment option for landlords and sharecroppers that allows each landlord/sharecrop arrangement to be insured under a separate insurance contract. Both the landlord(s) and sharecropper(s) jointly own the insurance contract for each arrangement.
