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Dicamba crop damage has brought up a bunch of insurance questions. Matt Barton, CEO of the Missouri Association of Insurance Agents, explains that federal crop insurance only covers damage from nature, “The damage from a herbicide, whether that’s off-label or not, would not be a covered risk under that type of insurance. So, from that point, what we turn to then is any coverage that could be provided under a farm liability policy.”

Barton tells Brownfield damage to other property or bodily injury to a person as a result of pollution is a standard EXCLUSION in liability policies, but chemical drift coverage can be added, “Is it enough in a situation like this?

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