AgriInsurance Program
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Eligibility & Details
What this program funds and who can apply
Program Description
Federal-provincial-producer cost-shared crop and livestock production insurance that compensates farmers for losses from natural hazards including drought, flood, frost, wind, disease, and pests. The federal and provincial governments share the cost of premiums with producers and co-fund program administration; no premium-subsidy percentage is published. Coverage is a chosen percentage of your own probable yield, capped federally at 90%. Coverage is a chosen percentage of your own probable yield, capped federally at 90%. Claims paid when insured production falls below the insured coverage level. Operates under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership.
Eligibility Requirements
- Canadian farmer or agricultural producer in any province
- Growing or producing eligible insurable commodities (crops, livestock, horticulture)
- Must enroll with the provincial AgriInsurance delivery agency before provincial enrollment deadline
- Must pay producer's share of the insurance premium
- Eligible commodities vary by province — contact provincial agency for commodity-specific coverage
- Eligibility set provincially — most commercial producers of insurable commodities are eligible. Aquaculture, forestry, peat moss, game, and cannabis are excluded. Government-funded research stations, universities, and colleges are ineligible (per AAFC guidelines). Landlords earning only rental income from crop shares are not eligible.
- The applicant must be the party actually farming. Alberta's application excludes cash-rent and crop-share landlords, mortgagers and security holders, and custom farm operators.
- Saskatchewan requires contract holders to demonstrate legal, operational and financial independence from all other producers — legal access to the land, responsibility for farming decisions with access to machinery and storage, and bearing the financial risk of loss.
Quick Assessment
Funding Details
- Amount
- The federal and provincial governments share the cost of insurance premiums with producers and co-fund program administration. Claims are paid according to your chosen coverage level; AAFC publishes no premium-subsidy percentage.
- Type
- Program
- Level
- Federal
- Deadline
- Annual — enrollment deadlines vary by province and crop type (typically spring)
Program Scorecard
Competition, effort, and approval at a glance
Very accessible — simple application
Low competition — good odds of approval
Easy — minimal documentation
How to Win
Insider tips, common pitfalls, and what successful applicants look like
Insider TipPremiums are cost-shared between government and producer, though AAFC publishes no percentage split.
Success Profile
Evaluation Criteria
How Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada judges your application
What the reviewer scores, what gets applications rejected, and what to write.
Distilled from 6+ source documents, condensed into one brief. Sources as of 2026-09-03.
6 of the sources
- AgriInsurance Program agriculture.canada.ca
- Farm Income Protection Act laws-lois.justice.gc.ca
- Applying for Insurance — AFSC afsc.ca
- Application for Contract of Insurance afsc.ca
- Application for Identification Number afsc.ca
- Land Reports — AFSC afsc.ca
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What Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada favours
Show legal, operational and financial independence from other producers◦
“Crop Insurance regulations require contract holders to demonstrate legal, operational and financial independence from all other producers in order to be eligible.”
The form
Identification
- 1Client Information (Application for Identification Number)short answer
- 2Applicant identity, contact and account preferences (up to 8 applicants)short answer
- 3Client declaration — Application for Identification Numbercheckbox
Contract application forms
- 4Client Information (Application for Contract of Insurance)short answer
- 1question 1: Does the Business…checkboxes
- 2question 2: shared or exchanged work with another produceryes/no + written
2. Does the Business share or exchange work with another producer?
- 7Authorities — third party representativecheckbox
- 8AFSC Privacy Collection Notification and Client Declarationcheckboxes
- 9Client Signaturesshort answer
Reporting calendar
- 10Land report (Alberta, in-season)table
- 11Unseeded Acreage Benefit — information required with the land report (Alberta)list
- 12Reseeding Benefit — notification before reseeding (Alberta)list
- 13Harvested production report (Alberta, post-harvest)table
- 14Customer responsibilities and reporting calendar (Saskatchewan)list
Applying, renewing and cancelling
- 15Apply for an AgriInsurance policy (Manitoba)selection
- 16Renewal, change and cancellation (the recurring decision)selection
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada states no length limits for these answers.
Judged against
- 1
Are you the actual independent farmer?
Show them Show you own or lease the land, make the cropping decisions, sell the crop in the business's name, and pay for the inputs and contracted work.◦
In the funder’s words · 2
- Crop Insurance regulations require contract holders to demonstrate legal, operational and financial independence from all other producers in order to be eligible.
- SCIC may review existing contracts to ensure they meet eligibility requirements. Where concerns are identified, the contract holder will be advised of the requirements in order to maintain their contract.
- 2
Does declared production fall below the guarantee?
What to show, and the funder’s 1 criterion behind it in Premium
- 3
Can you prove the acres and the spending?
What to show, and the funder’s 1 criterion behind it in Premium
Where applicants fail
“Acres that are not released by AFSC prior to reseeding are not eligible for this benefit.”
“If the HPR is not submitted by the December 31 deadline, the yield will be recorded as zero and no indemnity will be calculated.”
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You
Producer in a participating province
The program is currently available to most producers in all provinces. Eligibility criteria for this program, as established at the provincial level, will continue to evolve as provinces add new commodities to their lists of insurable agricultural products.
Meets the Alberta agency's rules
Insurance is available to any producer who meets AFSC eligibility requirements. Insurance applicants are required to provide legal, operational and financial information.
1 thing this funder says you do NOT need, in Premium.
Documents to attach
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The money
Federal coverage ceilingNinety per cent of probable yield
in the case of a crop insurance program, the manner of determining the percentage, not to exceed ninety per cent, of the probable yield of an agricultural product in any risk area or in respect of any farm enterprise that may be insured
Manitoba coverage levels50, 70, 80, 90 per cent
AgriInsurance can be tailored to fit different types of farming operations and budgets, with three coverage levels to choose from: 50, 70, or 80 per cent of probable yield, or the Crop Coverage Plus option, which provides coverage up to 90 per cent of probable yield.
How the payout worksProduction difference × MASC dollar value
If the insured's harvested production (adjusted for quality losses) falls below the coverage, an indemnity equal to the production difference multiplied by MASC’s dollar value for the crop is paid.
Premium interestCIBC prime plus two per cent
Interest begins accruing on unpaid premiums September 1 at the CIBC prime rate plus two per cent, adjusted quarterly.
Your shareGovernments share premium cost with producers
The federal and provincial governments help to make production insurance affordable by sharing the cost of premiums with producers and by co-funding program administration.
Costs before approvalCoverage starts when AFSC accepts application
Understand and agree that the client is not insured until AFSC accepts this application
From application to money
- Meet the agency firstIn-person application or relationship manager
- Apply by the deadlineLast day of February or April 30
- Policy acceptedRescind within five days of signing
- Land report (Alberta)June 20File land report by June 20
- Harvest report (Alberta)Harvest report due October 15 or November 15
- Renew, change or cancelRenews automatically unless changed or cancelled
In the funder’s words · 6
- Meet the agency first
- This cannot be completed online: in Saskatchewan and Manitoba the application itself must be made in person and in Alberta a relationship manager meets you after the forms are received.
- Apply by the deadline
- The deadline is provincial and hard, and coverage cannot be bought after a loss. (Last day of February for Perennial Crop Insurance; April 30 for Annual Crop Insurance)
- Policy accepted
- You have five days from signing to rescind the Application for Contract of Insurance.
- Land report (Alberta)
- Land reports are essential to coverage and premium calculations, which are based on the entire land base you farm, not just the acres you have insured.
- Harvest report (Alberta)
- At harvest's end, producers with annual or perennial crop insurance must declare their insured production for the crop year in a harvested production report (HPR). (October 15 for perennial crops and November 15 for annual crops)
- Renew, change or cancel
- Your contract renews automatically each year unless you change or cancel it by the provincial deadline.
Quoted lines are word for word from the source documents; lines marked ◦ are our reading of them.
Everything you need to win AgriInsurance Program
Not a marketing summary. The actual checklist, intel, and stack strategy reviewers look for.
- 5-document checklist with what each reviewer is actually checking
- Your Application Game Plan — the print-ready PDF the preview below describes
- 6-step application timeline with prep hours per step
- Insider tip from program officers on what separates winners
- 2-program stacking strategy to combine with compatible funding
- Success profile + evaluation criteria — exactly what reviewers score on
Application Playbook
Step-by-step process, required documents, and expenses
Application Steps
Required Documents 5
Eligible Expenses 7
Ineligible Expenses 5
Intake Periods
Deadline Notes
Ineligible Organizations
Funding Stack Strategy
Compatible programs, clawback risk, and combined funding potential
Compatible Programs
Clawback Risk
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