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weather conditions; 2. Fire; 3, Insects; 4. Plant For more information, please
disease; 5, Wildlife; 6. Earthquake; 7. Volcanic email info@agriskmgmt.com
eruption; and 8. Failure of irrigation water supply. or call (239) 789-4742
There are more details to the causes of loss, you
can’t have a loss due to plant disease if you are Trevor Troyer: Vice President of Operations for
not applying sufficient and proper applications of Agricultural Risk Management
control measures. Adverse weather conditions can
be excess moisture, drought, extreme heat, frost,
freeze etc. Fire can cause “smoke taint” and that is
covered. Inability to market the grapes for any rea-
son other than physical damage from an insurable
cause is not covered. Damage due to phylloxera is
also not covered.

There are sign up deadlines with all crop insur-
ance policies. This is the same for Grape crop
insurance as well. The deadline for all states other
than California is November 20th. For California the
deadline to sign up is January 31st. Premiums are
not due at the time of sign-up; premium billing is
done in August.

Agricultural Risk Management is a national crop
insurance agency with offices in Florida, California
and Pennsylvania. 2022 will be our 20th year of
selling crop insurance.

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