Most farm risk plans are built on break-even. The market does not care what your break-even is, and neither does the insurance behind it.
This live session, presented with Global Ag Risk Solutions, put four perspectives on the same problem: Dave Sullivan from Global Ag Risk, Dean Klippenstine and Tyson Kenneth from MNP, and producer Carl DeConnick Smith, known for a contrarian but disciplined approach to planning. They work through how insurance options, AgriStability, and forward pricing fit together, what a well-thought-out plan does for a farm when volatility hits, and how a young farm with no history gets started. Live questions from the audience shape much of the conversation.
What's Inside
- How the major insurance options and AgriStability work together, and where each one stops
- Why a plan built before volatility arrives changes how a farm behaves when it does
- How a new farmer with no production history approaches coverage
- What one producer's plan looks like when everything seems to be going against him
- The one number the panel agrees every farm should know before it plans the year
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