Farm Insurance

Below are the benefits that come as standard for both our Smart Farm Easy and Smart Farm Choice cover options

Public Liability

• Protecting you if you or your employees are held responsible for accidental injury to clients, customers or the public. Standard cover of up to €6.5 million for public liability claims.

Environmental Liability

• Cover up to €2.6 million, to protect against costs associated with gradual environmental damage and pollution, including own land and third-party clean-up costs.

Legal Expenses

• cover provides legal costs of up to €150,000 per claim, and up to €1,500,000 for any one period of insurance. It covers issues such as property disputes, alleged wrongful dismissal of employees or contract disagreements.

Below are the optional extra benefits that you can choose to add to both our Smart Farm Easy and Smart Farm Choice cover options

Personal Accident

• Option to include cover for up to 24 months income if you are unable to work on your farm due to unforeseen circumstances. 

Injury to Worker

• Option to include cover for up to €13 million for employer liability claims. This cover is available for both family and non-family workers.

Farm Property

• Livestock – Option to include specific cover for the death or slaughter on humane grounds of your livestock. Protect your animals in case of flood, fire, lightning, explosion, storm, electrocution, collapse of slats, livestock on foot and livestock in transit.

• Farm outbuildings and contents – Option to include extensive cover for outbuildings and contents, including storm cover on outbuildings and milking equipment. There’s no need to break down your contents between hay and straw, agricultural produce, and implements and utensils. Simply provide us with a single figure to cover your outbuildings content. Subject to terms and conditions.

• Farm-dwelling house – Option to include farmhouse and contents cover to protect your home and your business – including business contents, fire brigade charges and accidental damage cover.

Tractors and Agricultural Vehicles

• Option to include third party, fire and theft, or comprehensive cover for farm vehicles. Trailer cover is also available.

Jeep Insurance

• Option to cover for farm jeeps used for farming, social, domestic and pleasure purposes only. Restricted to 2-seater commercial jeeps and commercial crew cab.

Below are the optional extra benefits that you can choose to add to our Smart Farm Choice cover options

Hospitalisation for Sickness Covers

• Option to include cover to provide you with an income due to hospitalisation as a result of unforeseen sickness. The benefit is payable from the fifth day in hospital up to a maximum of 12 weeks.

Theft

• Option to include protection against loss of livestock, stolen and unrecovered, due to theft, as well as the option to protect the farm tools you own against theft if your insured farm property is broken into. This is available as an add-on. Theft of diesel is included in your cover at no extra cost when outbuildings are insured.

Losses

• Milk – Option to include cover loss or deterioration of milk contained in the tank, including loss due to failure of any thermostatic controlling device, the public supply of electricity, or damage to the bulk milk tank where such failure is not the result of a deliberate act. It also covers loss of your own milk if it’s rejected by the Co-Op because of accidental contamination by antibiotic residue and failure of the Co-op to collect.
• Crops – Option to include cover for loss of or damage to growing crops caused by fire, lightning, explosion, impact and aircraft.
• Pedigree Livestock – Option to include cover for death or infertility as a result of any accident, illness or disease is available as part of the farm policy.
• Forestry – Option to include protection for storm for crops (aged less than 21 years) and fire cover.
• Sheep Flock – Option to include protection for your sheep flock against fatal injury or necessary slaughter arising from dog attack or dog/sheep worrying.

All-Risks Cover for Specialist Equipment

• Option to include cover all your specialist equipment, including bulk milk tank, A.I. flasks, cameras, tack, trailers, calving cameras, and more.

Simply fill out the call back form here: Business and Farm Insurance Quotes Ireland – An Post Insurance. One of our Farm Insurance agents will call you back as soon as possible to talk you through a quote. 

If you own a farm that is less than 100 acres, our Smart Farm Easy Policy would suit you.

For larger farms that are over 100 acres, specific, customised cover may be required. You should check out our Smart Farm Choices Policy. 

Employer’s Liability Cover is designed to protect you against legal liability for any injury or disease caused to your employees and family members over 14 years old in the course of their farming duties. You have the option to add Employers Liability Cover* to your policy which provides cover for up to €13 million.

*Optional add-ons are subject to an additional charge; it is not necessary to purchase these add-ons in order to purchase the policy. 

Public Liability protects you if your negligence (or your employees’ negligence) causes damage or injury to the public. Standard cover is up to €6.5 million for public liability claims. Public Liability Cover does not protect you against injury to an employee or voluntary helper on the farm. You will need Employers Liability Cover for this. 

Livestock Theft* is an optional additional benefit. If selected it will cover loss (but not damage to, or injury) to livestock stolen and unrecovered as a result of theft. Certain conditions apply, please refer to your policy booklet for full details. (Only available on Smart Farm Choices Policies).

*Optional add-ons are subject to an additional charge; it is not necessary to purchase these add-ons in order to purchase the policy.