To help shed light on the importance of agricultural education and the tremendous contributions of teachers, Nationwide, the number one farm insurer in the United States, has established the Golden Owl Award, honoring the agriculture educator of the year. During the inaugural year, Nationwide partnered with the Iowa FFA, Ohio FFA, and Ohio Farm Bureau […]

Each year, tragedy strikes across rural America when lives are lost due to grain bin entrapments. To help lead the fight against these accidents, Nationwide, in partnership with the National Education Center for Agricultural Safety (NECAS), has selected a record 29 fire departments as winners of the fifth annual Nominate Your Fire Department Contest. As […]

Over the last three years, these top 10 agribusiness insurance claims have accounted for more than 50,000 claims received by Nationwide.

There were 60 confirmed grain bin entrapments and incidents in other confined spaces on U.S. farms in 2016, according to Purdue University. That’s a 27 percent increase from 2015, and Purdue estimates that an additional 30 percent of cases go unreported each year. Because these accidents have become all too common, Nationwide is launching its […]

It was almost two years prior that Fire Chief Matt Webb had received a grain rescue tube from Nationwide when he received the 911 call about a local farmer.

It only takes three to four seconds for a person to become entrapped in flowing grain.