Crop insurance adjusters say the bad weather this summer is keeping them working overtime.
There are about 50 adjusters working in Southern Alberta and they're all busy.
On Thursday, adjuster Arnold Johnson was in a wheat field north of Vulcan that was hit hard by hail. "Every year's different but I would say we're probably double the claims we would normally expect."
Roy Newman, who farms north of Blackie, has to make an insurance claim after a storm ripped through his farm on Wednesday night. "You only got so much money to go around, with input costs going up so much and fuel prices going up, it's tough to say how much am I going to put on this crop now but you gotta cover your costs or you're taking a really big gamble," says Newman.
Newman says crops are above average this year and they're worth far more then what farmers can insure them for. At this point all he can hope for is no more hail storms. But that's not likely to happen with hail season typically lasting until the end of August.
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