Protecting Your Operation

Helping members protect their family, their business and their future by delivering resources to help manage production, marketing, financial, legal and human resource risk. With Protecting Your Operation, Farm Bureau aims to deliver expert analysis and ideas so members can better prepare and understand their risks, develop a plan and implement their plan with partners they trust.

Ag tool to help avoid electrical infrastructure and electrocution

ShockAvoid is a provider of high-voltage proximity alarms to help farmers and crop protection applicators steer clear of dangerous electrical hazards.

How to manage ‘attractive farm nuisances’

It’s important for a landowner to work with a specialist who can best identify the risks and put a protection plan in place.

Investment in succession planning pays off

Alisha Morgan is passionate about succession planning because without that plan in place, the emotional and financial tolls that came their family’s way could have resulted in the loss of their farm.

Keep the farm protected with inflation guard coverage

Staying on top of your insurance coverage can help keep unexpected expenses like rising replacement costs from cutting potential farm revenue.

3 questions to ask before lending farm, ag equipment to neighbors

It’s crucial to do proper planning – weighing any safety, liability and insurance considerations.

3 life insurance options to secure your farm

Nationwide has solutions whether a beginning farmer, an established operation or if thinking about the future of the farm.

Keep up with risk mitigation as farm size grows

Farmers today are increasingly adapting farm management strategies to integrate things like human relations and employee management.

How to sell at a farmers market

Nationwide suggests tried-and-true tips and strategies that may improve odds for success and increase profitability at a farmers market.

Prioritizing cybersecurity on farms

Protect your data by first recognizing its value, then work in secure hardware and systems.

Nationwide News: COVID-19 exposes contingency planning importance

The more you plan ahead, the quicker you’ll be able to get back up and running following a disruption to…