The crop insurance director for the Farmer Business Network encourages growers to look at optional enhancements to their overall coverage because of increased pest and disease pressures.
Eric Sorensen gives an example, “We had a few claims that were a loss on corn, I believe it was, from armyworms. I personally had never encountered that before but I know of at least two of our customers that were hit really hard from that and it just, overnight, pretty much annihilated the crop.”
He says farmers might have white mold or SDS in certain soybean fields where there’s a likelihood of recurrence.
