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What are the benefits of insuring your farm?
Protecting your livelihood
Your home, equipment and vehicles are all integral to keeping your farm running smoothly. Make sure they’re protected.
Protecting your livestock
Your livestock is one of your greatest assets. A typical insurance plan covers your animals for natural disasters, as well as when they’re in transit or stray from your property.
Protecting your employees
Working with heavy machinery and large animals involves risk, for you and your employees. Make sure that you have financial support in the event of any accidents.
Peace of mind
Our extensive insurance coverage means you can work comfortably, knowing that if something should happen, you’re protected with insurance. From fire damage and floods to deterioration of frozen food and subsidence, we’ll get you covered.
Protect against the unforeseeable
As a farmer, you know that you can’t always prepare for every eventuality! We compare wide-reaching cover from a range of providers in Ireland so that you can work on your farm, safe in the knowledge that we’ve got your back.
Farm Dwelling House and Contents Insurance
The Farm Dwelling House is deemed to include domestic offices, domestic garages, walls, gates and fences immediately surrounding the dwelling house.
Typical insurance cover on the Farm House includes:
Fire, Smoke, Lightning, Thunder, Explosion, Storm, Tempest, Flood, Accidental Damage to Building and Contents, Theft or Attempted Theft, Subsidence, Deterioration of Frozen Food, Bursting or Overflow of aWater Tank, or Pipes.
Note: The sum insured on the Dwelling must represent the actual cost of replacing a building of similar dimensions with similar type materials. For example, the cost of rebuilding a period-type residence will be greater than the cost of rebuilding a modern bungalow and the sum insured should reflect the same.
What risks impact the cost?
House being let to tenants
House being unoccupied
Previous claims
Year of build of the House
All Risks cover can be included to give more specialised cover on Personal items such as Jewellery, Computers and Sports Equipment. Valuations may be required for these items.
Public Liability, Product Liability and Environmental Liability
Public Liability insurance covers the farmer’s legal liability for injury, disease or property damage caused to a member of the public as a result of the farmer’s activities.
- Accidental personal injury to a member of the public
- Accidental damage to property arising from the business of farming
- Injury to driver and passengers of a car which skidded on muck left on the public road by the farmer
- Injury to driver and passengers of a car having hit an animal which strayed on to the public road
- Cattle getting into a neighbour’s garden
- Full occupation, ie Farmer and Agri Contractor
- Acreage owned and rented
Product Liability
Product Liability protects the legal liability of the farmer in the event of some defect in the products supplied by the farmer.
Environmental Liability
Environmental Liability protects against costs associated with gradual environmental damage and pollution, including own land and third party clean-up costs.
Employers’ Liability
Every farmer should have employers’ liability cover.
This cover provides protection for the farmer against legal liability for injury or disease caused to employees in the course of their farming duties. The calculation of this premium is based on the wages paid by the farmer to employees.
Remember, you should include family members’ wages, such as a daughter or son farming at home on a full time or part time basis. This is also the case for voluntary helpers. You’ll need to declare extra activities, such as Agri Contracting, to the Insurer as well.
Personal Accident
Farmers very often have everything covered with their farm insurance except themselves! However, it should be an essential part of your insurance plan.
How will the farm continue to operate if the farmer breaks a leg or injures / incapacitates themselves, particularly during busy times on the farm? The cost incurred in hiring someone to run the farm for a few months can be substantial. However, building good Personal Accident cover into the Farm policy can cover these expenses, hassle-free.
Personal Accident cover operates 24 hours a day, is not restricted to farm accidents, and you can even extend it to cover sporting accidents. We also include Capital Benefits in the event of death or permanent incapacity.
Livestock & Pedigree Animals
Typical cover for Livestock on farm policies includes:
- Fire, Lightning, Electrocution and Storm
- During transit or if they stray from the farmers property
- Death or necessary slaughter following the collapse of slats
Farmers may also look for the following more specialist cover:
- Sheep worrying by dogs
- Theft of Livestock
- Accident, illness or disease to Pedigree animals
- Infertility of Pedigree animals due to accident, illness or disease
Outbuildings and Agri Contents
Farm outbuildings can be covered for Fire, Lightning and Storm damage.
Storm damage cover is dependent on the age and condition of the building and is subject to survey.
It is really important to insure outbuildings for the current rebuilding cost as being underinsured could have a serious negative impact on a claim. settlement.
Agri Contents can be covered for fire and lightning and can include the following:
- Hay, Straw, Grain and other agri-produce
- Implements and Tools
- Trailered implements
- Farm machinery
- Milking Equipment and Bulk Tank (you can add storm cover for these)
Note: Many farmers opt to take out comprehensive cover on some trailered vehicles such as Cattle Boxes, Mowers, Round Balers etc. This will extend cover to accidental damage or theft of these items.
Tractors, Agricultural Vehicles & Machinery
- Open Driving at 16 Years
- Full passenger cover
- Third Party attached trailer cover
- Agricultural Contracting
- Third Party/Fire & Theft/ Comprehensive options
Private Cars and
Jeeps
- Comprehensive/Third Party Fire & Theft/Third Party
- Driving of other Cars
- Open Driving
- EU Extension
- Material Facts/
Farm Insurance FAQs
Each farm policy is priced differently depending on the type of farm enterprise and on the scale of the operation. Rating factors include acreage, value of outbuildings, wages paid, number and value of livestock, number of agri vehicles and cover on same, agri contracting, previous claims etc. In Campion Insurance we have an expert agri team who tailor the cover to our clients’ needs giving advice and recommendations regarding the various covers.
No. However, if you own property, it is vital to protect your assets. Agri / mechanically propelled vehicles are obliged by law to have a minimum of third party cover.
Campion Insurance have a specialist agri team dealing with 4 different farm insurers. We constantly compare prices and shop your insurance at each renewal in order to get you the best value possible without compromising on cover. Our dedicated team are experts in their field, we are available over the phone or to meet on your farm to discuss your insurance needs.
Your house should be insured for its current rebuilding cost. The Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland provide useful information and a tool to guide you in terms of rebuilding costs.
The same applies for outbuildings, it is very important to insure outbuildings for the current cost of rebuilding them to avoid being penalised in the event of a claim. This is particularly relevant at this time in light of increasing cost of materials such as steel and timber.
Yes. The milk that is contaminated in the Lorry and in the Co-op is covered excluding your own milk.
Yes. Public Liability picks up your legal liability towards recreational users of your land.
Yes. You need to protect your legal liability in the event of a claim brought against you as property owner.
Employers Liability can be extended to cover family members who are working part or full time on the family farm. The premium is based on the wages paid to the family member. However, if your Daughter or Son are partners in running the farm, most insurers will exclude them under the Employers Liability. In this event, we would strongly recommend taking out Personal Accident cover on the family member which can be included as part of the farm package.
Yes. Employers Liability policies can include cover for a Voluntary helper.
Farm policies will have a Personal Accident section which we would strongly encourage every farmer to have. This cover will provide weekly benefits of up to €750 per week following an accident where the farmer is unable to work (there are other benefits included also such Permanent Disability, Death, Partial Disability). Personal Accident cover can be extended at an additional cost to cover sporting accidents – this will cover field sports such as Hurling, Football, Soccer, Rugby.