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Nationwide Insurance expanded its Farm Bureau ties in January by gaining the endorsements of both West Virginia Farm Bureau (WVFB) and Delaware Farm Bureau (DFB).

Through these new relationships, WVFB and DFB will support Nationwide’s efforts to provide specialized insurance and financial services as member benefits. Nationwide has a similar working arrangement with Ohio Farm Bureau, which founded Nationwide, and with Farm Bureaus in Maryland, Pennsylvania and California.

"We are pleased to endorse Nationwide and its products as a service to our members," said Charles Wilfong, WVFB president. "Nationwide’s outstanding reputation and years of experience serving Farm Bureau members make us confident this will be a long and mutually beneficial relationship," he said.

"By working together with Nationwide as our endorsed insurance provider, we will offer our members a broader range of quality insurance and financial services," said Robert Baker, DFB president.

Steve Rasmussen, president and chief operating officer of Nationwide’s property-casualty insurance companies, said, "We are proud to be associated with Delaware and West Virginia Farm Bureaus. Since our very beginning in 1926 as Farm Bureau Mutual Automobile Insurance, we have always been a strong supporter of Farm Bureau organizations."

Nationwide now serves more than 370,000 Farm Bureau families in six states and is the largest insurer of farms in the United States. The company also is endorsed by Southern States Cooperative of Richmond, Va., and CHS Inc., a farmer-owned cooperative based in Minnesota.

To help kick-off the new relationships in January, Nationwide introduced an updated farm insurance policy in both Delaware and West Virginia, as it did for Ohio Farm Bureau members last year.

Later in the year, the insurer will offer an auto insurance program exclusively for WVFB and DFB members, as it has for many years with OFBF members.

"We have thousands of good customers in West Virginia and Delaware, and we look forward to a serving many more people in these states, particularly those in the agricultural community," Rasmussen said.