Featured News
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Submit your Photos for the 2025 NAU Country Photo Calendar Contest
*****VOTING IS NOW CLOSED ***** Thank you for your participation! Join the 2025 NAU Country Photo Calendar Contest! Submit your farm and ranch photos now through Thursday, September 5, 2024, at 12:00 p.m. (CDT) for a chance to have your photos featured in our upcoming calendar. This contest is open to Agents, Farmers, Ranchers, Producers, NAU Country employees, and friends. Contest rules apply. Read more for details! August 06, 2024 -
USDA Announces Changes to Enhanced Coverage Option Insurance Program
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced changes to the Enhanced Coverage Option (ECO) beginning with the 2025 crop year. USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) is expanding coverage options to additional crops as well as increasing premium support to make the policy more affordable for producers. July 30, 2024 -
Introducing EASYbind: Your Hassle-Free Solution to Binding Crop-Hail
Don't let storm clouds catch you off guard. Embrace the power of EASYbind and take control of your Crop-Hail Binding process like never before. Experience the speed, efficiency, and reliability of EASYbind – because when it comes to protecting your farmers' livelihoods, every second counts. May 02, 2024
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Field level weather data is now available in Field Insights® on all Livestock and non-mapped policies
NAU Country agents will now be able to sign into Field Insights® and show MPCI and Livestock farmers that they can utilize Field Insights whether or not they have mapped fields on their policy. May 06, 2021 -
Crop Insurance Basics: Incentives
Policy makers designed crop insurance with a self-correcting feature that naturally discounts premium for any producer who improves their performance. This catch-all incentive rewards any behavior that increases yields and reduces risk for farmers and taxpayers. April 22, 2021 -
After a Year of Hardship, Hope Lies Ahead
More than 55 agricultural trade associations, agribusinesses, and farm lenders recently sent letters to policy makers and elected officials emphasizing that cuts to crop insurance must be avoided in this year’s budget discussions, as the certainty provided by the crop insurance program makes it a “critical linchpin of the farm safety net.” April 21, 2021 -
NAU Country takes pride in making business simple
The NAU Country mobile app allows you to add a Quarterly Coverage Endorsement (QCE) to Dairy Revenue Protection (DRP) policies. Lock in your QCE during an open sales period from your NAU Country mobile app. Then capture your farmers signature either in person with eSign, or through a push notification to their mobile device when they are not present. April 12, 2021 -
Join our Spring 2021 NAU Country Connection training webinars
Refresh your product and system knowledge this spring with the NAU Country Connection Webinar Series. Back by popular demand, this series focuses on Production and Acreage Reporting systems, Crop-Hail and EASYmapping® features, and our weather metrics tools. For some, these courses will serve as refreshers for the time of year, and for others, it may be completely new material. We customize our training to assist both types of users. March 30, 2021 -
Crop Insurance Basics: Actual Production History
One of crop insurance’s defining attributes is its self-correcting nature. Collecting and analyzing a producer’s Actual Production History (APH), which takes into account a grower’s actual yields over a period of time, also compares performance to other farms within the county and surrounding communities. A higher APH may mean paying lower premiums. March 26, 2021 -
This Crop Enhanced Coverage Option Provides Well-Needed Assurance to the American Farmer — in Addition to Saving Costs and Advancing Risk Management
With the American farmer and the evolving threats to their livelihood in mind, Jim Korin, President of NAU Country, was featured in Risk & Insurance discussing the Enhanced Coverage Option. With the main goal to help farmers bounce back in the event their losses exceed traditional coverage, this new product took tenacity, work, and planning to come about. Find out more in this recent article. March 09, 2021 -
Go the EXTRA MILE for your farmer this hail season
As a NAU Country agent, you have access to sign up to receive a hail notification when hail has potentially hit your farmers’ fields, but did you know that NAU Country offers this same service to your farmers through our Insured Hail Notifications? March 08, 2021 -
Crop Insurance Basics: Good Farming Practices
Good Farming Practices, or GFPs, are constantly evolving to keep pace with new technologies and changes in the market, weather, and land management. These practices are rooted in science and data and are based on regional research. In other words, GFPs must be proven to work. March 03, 2021 -
EASYsign® made even easier with expanded functionality
EASYwriter Pro's eSign functionality has been rebranded and is now called EASYsign. In addition to the rebranding, new user-friendly features have also been released. February 17, 2021