Member companies of the Canadian Crop Hail Association (CCHA) say they're processing more than 2,000 claims of crop damage across the Prairies.
Members of the Canadian Crop Hail Association include Co-operative Hail Insurance Company, Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation, Palliser Insurance Company Ltd, Saskatchewan Municipal Hail Insurance and Rain and Hail Insurance Services.
The claims stem from storms that occurred June 22nd to July 5th. During that time, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba were hit with hail from golf-ball size to baseball size, along with wind and large amounts of rain.
President of CCHA Tyson Ryhorchuk says a large area of Saskatchewan was hit by consecutive days of hail.
"Alberta and Manitoba are also fairly heavy, especially in southwest Manitoba," said Ryhorchuk. "But there was that large storm that everyone's been hearing about that stretched basically from Calgary all the way down to Swift Current that had a pretty big swath of hail that came through with it."
He added northern portions of Saskatchewan are also seeing storm activity, noting "hail and plow winds go basically from Tisdale all the way to the Manitoba border in the northeast corner of the province."
All crop types were reported to have been damaged by hail in the Prairie Provinces, according to CCHA.
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