Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance

Our trainers are busy in the field for fall update meetings. Agents in Kansas learned about important updates like policy and system changes, including the expansion of camelina coverage in select states.

We enjoyed a special visit from a few Iowa FFA State Officers with the Iowa FFA Foundation recently! We love to hear about how students are working with a fellow ag-focused organization to pursue their interests in .

Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance hosted these Iowa FFA State Officers while on Partnership Visits where they talked about Iowa FFA and how they are continuing to grow and thrive! While there, they also learned more about Farmers Mutual and how critical and crucial the work they do is to the agriculture industry. Thank you, Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance, for taking the time to meet with these officers!

Prepping for ? Precision Crop Insurance Solutions™ from FMH lets you use the precision ag data you're already collecting for electronic reporting and claims, making faster, easier, and more accurate.

Get started with precision today: https://hubs.la/Q01-cFNt0

ICYMI: Congress is working to expand the Whole Farm Revenue Protection Program to help small and mid-sized farmers, plus tightening payment limits. Read more in this recent blog from DTN/The Progressive Farmer: https://hubs.la/Q01-cwnn0

We're so proud to raise funds for childhood cancer research at our annual St. Baldrick's Foundation head-shaving event, and even prouder that a portion of the proceeds goes directly to those helping children right here in Iowa. Read more about our partnership with Blank Children's Hospital!

FMH Head-Shaving Event Raises Over $100k for Childhood Cancer Research Fundraisers “braved the shave” to raise awareness for childhood cancer research at the 18th Annual St. Baldrick’s Head-Shaving Event hosted by Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Company of Iowa on July 20.

The winter wheat projected price discovery period begins August 15. Use the FMH Price Discovery Tool to keep up on the market: https://hubs.la/Q01-cFFN0

FMH employees had fun and racked up the medals in this year's Des Moines Corporate Games, which earned us 5th place in our division! Congrats and thank you to everyone who participated!

FYI: You have extra time to pay your premium this year. The USDA has waived interest an additional 60 days due to widespread natural disasters. Learn more:

Interest Deferral on Crop Insurance Premiums Farmers Mutual Hail will defer interest charges on MPCI and private product premiums on policies with premium billing dates between July 1, 2023, and September 30, 2023.

Our farm safety net is stronger when it works for more farmers, more crops, and more acres. With threats to discounts in the upcoming Farm Bill, it's more important now than ever to strengthen it and learn how it protects our farmers.

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Farmer Participation in Crop Insurance Key to Farm Safety Net - Crop Insurance Keeps America Growing However, instead of wanting to encourage more farmers to participate in crop insurance to help shoulder risk, some activist critics want to reduce crop insurance discounts for farmers, or even prevent farmers from managing their risk with crop insurance by imposing arbitrary limits on farm income. E...

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Last week our employees showed up to raise an outstanding $102,412 for the St. Baldrick's Foundation! Thank you to our event sponsors for making this year's head-shaving and hair styling a fun and memorable way to fight childhood cancer: Bow and Arrow Communications, Inc., Sunnys Sons Salon , Iowa League of Heroes, emcee Lou Iowa Live, and emcee Jackie Schmillen

Photo credit: Photographer : Austin Day

Did you miss our appearance on the FieldView Partner Connect Webinar earlier this month? Hear from FMH agent Betsy Harms from Phillips Stafford Insurance Group and learn more about how you can utilize your FieldView data for .

Farmers Mutual Hail - FieldView Partner Connect Find out how agents and their customers can utilize FieldView data for crop insurance during this FieldView Partner Connect webinar recording.

Our trainers were busy learning about 2024 changes last week at Crop Insurance Keeps America Growing's Train the Trainer event in Kansas City. Plus, they got to take in a Kansas City Royals game!

FMH agents, are you signed up for our Fall Update Training? It's not too late to register: https://hubs.la/Q01YFmFT0

FMH Regional Claims Manager Mike Steenson captured this severe hail damage on sugar beets in western Nebraska. Storms last weekend brought heavy hail that stripped away the foliage covering the rows.

Tornadoes in Midwest states this year have impacted our employees, agents, and policyholders. That’s why we’re proud to help support those impacted by donating $10,000 to the American Red Cross Serving Nebraska and Southwest Iowa.

Join us in supporting the Red Cross:

I support the American Red Cross Support the American Red Cross today. Please visit our website to donate now. Financial donations of any size help fund our mission.

Applications are now open to join the Global Insurance Accelerator's 2024 hybrid program running January through April 2024. If you are an early-stage founder interested in the best mentorship in the business - our experts included - read more and apply: https://hubs.ly/Q01Yfc6-0

Find out how you can provide or secure Complete Farm Insurance Solutions™ when you follow us on our new Ag Brokerage Solutions page! Already a follower? Consider sharing some of our content with those you know.

Hear from one FMH agent on how Precision Solutions has made her job easier and saved time on for her customers. Read the article to learn about what she's learned in the process.

Iowa Agent Saves Time for Agency and Customers With Precision Solutions Samantha Rogers of Ringsted Insurance Services in Ringsted, Iowa, is helping her customers utilize their precision technology for more than just operational decisions.

ICYMI: The USDA has expanded risk management options to make Enterprise Units available for certain specialty crops. Enterprise units allow producers to insure all acres of the covered crop in one county together, which reduces overall risk and also lowers premium rates.

Learn more: https://hubs.la/Q01X7w8C0

FMH Precision Crop Insurance Solutions has made easier and more accurate for agents and policyholders. In fact, we recently won an innovation award for our customer-centered approach to developing new services from proofs of concept to scalable offerings!

FMH Wins NAMIC Award in Innovation: Creativity Category FMH today announced the launch of its newest company, Ag Brokerage Solutions™ (ABS), a unique brokerage company built for farmers and their agents who specialize in the field of agriculture.

Who is Ag Brokerage Solutions right for? Find out how you can benefit from an ABS risk management package to protect crops, livestock, buildings, pets, employees, and more.

For All Growers: Ag Brokerage Solutions With Ag Brokerage Solutions™ (ABS), FMH agents can provide their customers with Complete Farm Insurance Solutions™ and build risk management plans to cover crops, livestock, buildings, pets, employees, and more.

Join us on July 12 for this special FieldView™ Partner Connect webinar to learn more about how you can utilize your FieldView data for with us and more!

Register for the morning session: https://lnkd.in/g-WmVFMS

The best tools in digital farming are going LIVE at FieldView Partner Connect. At this interactive event, our partners in soil, field imagery, insurance and more will showcase their top digital tools for you to discover new way to keep your farm data rocking!​
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Plus, FREE FieldView Drive giveaway chances sponsored by ForGround by Bayer and FieldView.​

Register now!​ ⬇️
9:00 - 11:30am CST: https://fieldview.info/FPX23-am ​
1:00 - 3:30pm CST: https://fieldview.info/FPX23-pm

We were for our Meals from the Heartland meal packaging event last week. With 186 employees packaging 40,176 meals, we made enough to feed 155 kids for an entire year! Did you volunteer? Share your pics with us below.

The Acreage Reporting Deadline for many areas is July 17. Report in minutes with one of our precision data connections through the FMH Policyholder Center. Learn more: https://hubs.la/Q01VRMV-0

Happy Independence Day from Farmers Mutual Hail! We're proud to be .

As a provider, we're dedicated to fighting food insecurity as an integral part of our mission to enable farmers to feed the world. That's why we're proud to once again partner with Food Bank of Iowa as a corporate sponsor for their 2023 Summer Hunger Match campaign with a contribution of $50,000!

Find out how you can get involved in the fight against hunger:

Get Involved - Food Bank of Iowa In addition to financial donations, there are many other ways you can get involved with Food Bank of Iowa.

Our employees continue to rack up medals in the Des Moines Corporate Games! Congrats to our men's and women's medalists in dodgeball, pickleball and track and field!

We loved seeing our reinsurance clients at The Exchange last week. Thank you to those who joined us for an inspiring keynote from Devin Henderson Speaker, thought-provoking sessions and fun activities in our West Des Moines hometown!

Our Ag Brokerage Solutions offer more options for your whole operation, including livestock. Get coverage for livestock, hogs, dairy, poultry farms, and animal mortality coverage to protect the whole herd or flock.

Solutions for Animal Operations With Ag Brokerage Solutions (ABS),you can create an entire risk management package for your insureds - covering crops to buildings to animals and more.

The Sales Closing Date (SCD) for Annual Forage is July 17. Contact your FMH agent to secure coverage today!

Thanks to FMH District Sales Manager Kelly Bertz for sharing these snapshots from last week's hail training session for adjusters in Missouri! As part of the training, they identified hail damage on corn and soybean crops.

As we gear up for our St. Baldrick's Foundation head-shaving event, we want to share another way we give to organizations helping to find the cure for childhood cancers. Recently, FMH was recognized as a 2022 Corporate Champion Donor for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Recipients of the Champion Donor Award are those who go above and beyond to help ensure that Danny Thomas' dream comes true: that no child dies from cancer. FMH is proud to help support this mission!

This , we celebrate the many contributions of Black people in all aspects of American culture, including in agriculture. We are grateful to work alongside you, and we celebrate the stories of America's farmers like these.

Fridays on the Farm: Living a Generational Legacy in South Carolina This Friday meet the Dixon Family of Aynor, South Carolina. Dixon Farms has maintained continual operation for over 200 years and is still going strong.

Happy Father's Day from Farmers Mutual Hail!

We're looking forward to hosting our mutuals at next week's Exchange event here in West Des Moines! Thank you for choosing us as business partners -- we value the chance to help your businesses continue to thrive.