By Maryl Joop


Anyone who operates a farm will say that it's difficult to mitigate losses and risk associated with running that farm. The last thing a farmer needs is for their crops to be destroyed or otherwise compromised, leaving them unable to fulfill their livelihood. Owning a farm and using that as a source of income is challenging, especially in times where multinational corporations dominate large segments of produce markets. One thing that must be remembered about this kind of insurance is that it's affordable, which means little time should be wasted before the farmer signs up for it.

The second type of crop insurance is crop-hail policies. They are not part of the federal crop insurance program, but rather are regulated by the states. Private insurance companies sell these policies. A large number of farmers purchase crop-hail coverage because hail can completely destroy a large part of a planted field while leaving the rest undamaged. In places where hail occurs often, farmers will purchase a crop-hail policy to protect especially their crops that produce high yields.

Who Should Get Crop Insurance

Finding the Right Company

How to Buy Crop Insurance

Vendors can also play a significant role in deciding on how much coverage is needed. For example, if you are a sporting goods distributor a company like Dick's Sporting Goods may require you to have up to 5 million dollars per occurrence. This is mainly due to the factors of having a defect or problem with a product that may malfunction. In the event that there is a problem with your product you can use your increased coverage to stay afloat while the product is fixed or replaced.

As a farmer shops around for the right farm liability insurance policy, they should look to see how much liability is associated with that policy. A smaller farm is naturally going to need a smaller amount of liability. Pretty soon that small farm will have grown well past the amount of liability from their original policy. At that time, the farm should revisit their policy and change this part. It would be a bad situation for the farm to run into an instance where they have incurred such a tremendous amount of expenses that their policy won't protect them. Determining how much liability is needed is arduous because few farms seldom know how much their assets are worth. This information ironically comes when the farm revisits what they need for their insurance policies.




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