Saskatchewan farmers reported the highest number of hail claims for this year.

Murray Bantle Chairs the Canadian Crop Hail Association. Provincially the number of claims was similar to last year around 11,800 however the damage was more severe which resulted in a total payout of 121 million dollars.

 Bantle says we had 4 or 5 bad storm dates



The highest payout for hail claims was $228 million in 2008.