From SCook21809@aol.com Sun Mar 21 23:34:32 1999
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 22:58:11 EST
From: SCook21809@aol.com
To: csa-l@prairienet.org
Subject: Re: farm liability insurance

Susan,

The West Coast is not served by The Farm Bureau.  We have The Grange instead.
Grange insurance is very comprehensive.  Home liability, Farm liability,
Product liability, Fire, earth quake, volcano eruptions, out buildings,
equipment and employee coverage all covered up to $2 million on the basic
policy.  It cost about double what our home owners policy ran.  But it covers
everything to do about farming.  To get the coverage, one must join the
fraternal order of the Grange.  Our local chapter has a woman Grange Master,
woman Overseer, woman Secretary and woman Treasurer.  So what makes it a
fraternal organization?  The charter.  It is a politically and locally active
group of concerned farmers who don't allow trivial semantics to get in the way
of good works.  As with many farmers, there are Spiritual overtones and
rituals associated with the business of the organization making it rather
secular.  

Who could ask for more than piece of mind and brotherhood?

Art Biggert
Ocean Sky Farm