Convo 48
Production agriculture is constantly changing. Crop insurance is right there, making sure farmers have a modern and affordable risk management tool at their disposal.
Convo 47
As a crop insurance agent, I can tell you firsthand that crop insurance is no small expense for most of the state’s farmers, who spend north of $20,000 a year purchasing policies that they pray they will not need.
CROP INSURANCE IN ACTION: Klodette and Rick Stroh, Powell, Wyoming
Klodette Stroh isn’t your typical Wyoming farm girl. Klodette is an Assyrian, born in Teheran, Iran, who came to the U.S. to attend college with the goal of becoming a physician and instead wound up falling in love with Wyoming farmer, Rick Stroh. The couple began farming together in 1989, first purchasing some equipment and […]
CROP INSURANCE IN ACTION: Art Wiebelhaus, Fordyce, Nebraska
People hear a lot about crop insurance and the fact that U.S. farmers spend $4 billion out of their own pockets to purchase it every year. One of the greatest praises of our modern crop insurance system is the customer service that farmers receive before, but perhaps more importantly after, they have a loss. For […]
12 Essential Strengths of Crop Insurance
With the passage of the 2014 Farm Bill, crop insurance became the single most important risk management tool for America’s farmers and ranchers. Crop insurance helps make America’s farmers and ranchers world leaders in agriculture, allowing producers to stay competitive and be more innovative. It also helps them sleep better at night knowing that, should […]
Crop Insurance “ensures us a year to get by.”
“We’re in a drought right now and nobody’s praying for it.”
Crop Insurance Adjuster Schools Off to a Great Start!
Crop insurance loss supervisors and loss adjusters attended classes that provided them with updated field instruction, basic procedures, recent loss adjustment policy changes and hands-on training for dealing with crops damaged by hail. The classes, part an ongoing adjuster educational series sponsored by National Crop Insurance Services (NCIS), were held in Columbia, Missouri in early […]
Convo 45
Their policy, most people forget, will have a 20 percent deductible to it. How would you like to have a homeowner’s policy with a 20 percent deductible?
Wyoming Farmers Can Depend on Crop Insurance
I have a unique perspective among American farm wives since I was born and raised as an Assyrian living in Teheran, Iran. I came to Wyoming as a student but fell in love with a farmer and have spent my life making a living from and raising my family on the land that we love. […]
