The growing threat of wild boars in Alberta has prompted Agriculture Financial Services Corporation to include the invasive species in its Wildlife Damage Compensation Program.
“The program will compensate producers for wild boar damage to eligible unharvested hay crops and eligible annual unharvested crops, wildlife-excreta contaminated crops, stacked greenfeed and silage in pits and tubes,” said Daniel Graham, AFSC’s manager of product knowledge and pricing.
To be eligible, producers have to let provincial wild boar specialists attend their property to “review the damage, provide recommendation to prevent further damage, and to conduct wild boar eradication.”
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At least some of those recommendations must be implemented to maintain coverage.
“If a producer has a second claim, the minimum recommendations from the first claim visit must have been implemented in order to be eligible for a full claim,” AFSC said on its website. “If the recommendations have not been followed, no claim will be paid.”
Farmers can’t hunt wild boars on their property or allow others to hunt or trap them, it added.
