Featured News
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President's Budget Confirms Crop Insurance Essential to Farm Safety Net
On March 11, President Joe Biden released a proposed Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 budget that fully funds the Federal crop insurance program. The budget states that the “administration supports improvements to crop insurance, proactively managing risk from natural hazards, including the permanent authorization of the cover crop incentive program.” March 15, 2024 -
USDA Expands Insurance Option for Nursery Growers to All States
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is expanding crop insurance tailored for nursery producers to all counties in all states. Nursery Value Select (NVS) is a pilot program that enables nursery producers to select the dollar amount of coverage that best fits their risk management needs. Its expansion is part of USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) efforts to provide insurance options for a broader group of producers, including specialty crop producers. March 08, 2024 -
NAU Country Agent Darrell Tennie Receives Outstanding Outreach Award
NAU Country Agent Darrell Tennie received the distinguished Crop Insurance Industry Outstanding Outreach Award at the recent 2024 Crop Insurance Industry Annual Convention held in Scottsdale, Arizona. The NAU Country family is proud to work alongside Darrell. Congratulations on this well-deserved honor! March 07, 2024
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USDA announces implementation improvements of Livestock Risk Protection (LRP) Insurance Program
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Risk Management Agency (RMA) announced that further changes to its Livestock Risk Protection (LRP) insurance plan will take effect on January 20 for crop year 2021 and succeeding crop years. January 22, 2021 -
Is the Enhanced Coverage Option (ECO) right for you?
NAU Country’s drive and focus to deliver risk management solutions for the American Farmer has led to the development of the new Enhanced Coverage Option (ECO). Now, we need to know if it's right for you! Our quoting system offers accurate ECO quoting on your insured's policy, the ability to view their Individual APH and how it correlates to county values, and analyze "what if" indemnity loss performance in the Historical Analyzer. We also provide a surplus of sales tools including an ECO brochure, product overview, and radio and print ad templates. January 21, 2021 -
Boost your knowledge! Attend the 2021 NAU Country Connection Webinar Series
Crop Insurance sales season is here! Gain product and system knowledge to impress your prospects by attending the NAU Country Connection Webinar Series. This short series focuses on the Enhanced Coverage Option product and system features, the Quality Loss Option, Easy sales with EASYquote, Applications and EASYsign, and how to take your summer back with preliminary acreage reports! January 11, 2021 -
USDA's 2020 Accomplishments
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today applauded the accomplishments made by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) over the past year. December 18, 2020 -
USDA Announces Expansion and other Improvements to Hemp Crop Insurance
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced it is expanding the pilot Multi-Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI) plan for hemp. The expansion, as well as other improvements to the plan, will begin in the 2021 crop year. Read more. November 30, 2020 -
NAU Country offers the Enhanced Coverage Option (ECO)
The Enhanced Coverage Option is an area-based supplemental shallow-loss coverage that covers loss from 86% up to 90% or 95%. The endorsement is offered on 31 crops for the 2021 crop year, with expansion planned for 2022. Talk to your Marketing Representative today! November 19, 2020 -
USDA Introduces Enhanced Coverage Option Crop Insurance Product
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Risk Management Agency (RMA) today announced that a new Federal Crop Insurance product, the Enhanced Coverage Option (ECO), will be available for 31 spring-planted crops for the 2021 crop year and is expected to be available for additional crops starting in the 2022 crop year. November 16, 2020 -
Explore the Agent Portal
Our new Agent Portal showcases a modern look and feel that is simplistic and easy-to-use. The new web-based system offers a robust engine, sleek user interface, and strategic business management tools that will help you daily. Find out more information on how to access! October 30, 2020 -
NAU Country leads the development of Enhanced Coverage Option (ECO) to Help American Farmers Further Protect Their Crops
NAU Country Insurance Company and Watts and Associates, Inc., collaborated on a new crop insurance product titled the Enhanced Coverage Option (ECO). ECO is simply an area-based supplemental shallow-loss coverage that covers loss from 86% up to 90% or 95%. It is expected to be available on over 30 crops beginning in 2021 with more to follow in 2022 and beyond. October 12, 2020 -
Introducing the Fall NAU Country Connection Webinar Series - New Classes Posted!
To increase value in our partnership, this spring we introduced our webinar training series titled “NAU Country Connection”. Our trainings focused on how to best utilize NAU Country systems during the crop insurance cycle, being relevant to the appropriate time of year. We are reintroducing this series with not only an emphasis on system training, but we will also touch on some strategic products and procedures to assist you this sales season. October 11, 2020