Crop insurance can be confusing and time consuming. Our job is to help you provide the right risk management tool your client's need and in the most timely means possible.

Who is CIS?

• Crop Insurance Services (CIS) is a General Agency located in Southern Minnesota. Since 1985, its founder, Greg Wheelock, has been helping agents, bankers, and others just like you service the crop insurance needs of their farm clients. We work with "agencies" of all sizes…from those starting with no policies to those with policies generating over a million dollars in premium. We are currently licensed in IA, IL, MN, ND, SD, and WI...but aren't restricted geographically.
• We are experts in crop insurance. This is all we do and we do it well. Trust us!

What does an association with CIS mean to you?

• By focusing solely on crop insurance, CIS knows the details, rules, and regulations of very complicated government policies and can recommend which coverage is best for your client's risk management program.


• CIS has a full staff that works with or for you to gather all the information needed to establish a policy and set it up to best benefit your client's farming operation. CIS is able to learn more about an operation to ensure that the policy is set up properly, with the correct unit structure, making sure the insured is getting all of the discounts he/she is entitled to. After all, if a policy isn't set up correctly, what good is it? Our mapping service plays a key role in servicing a policy.


• CIS can show you and your client's how (higher levels) of revenue-based crop insurance policies can be a money making risk management tool when combined with the marketing of crops. It is probably the only crop insurance policy that will help farmers make more money, rather than be just another expense.


• CIS utilizes its own mapping program (AgriMaps) and prints color maps of your client's farming operation each year. The maps help both you and CIS better understand an insured's operation and also allows the farmer to better understand his/her policy and the unit structure of their policy. The maps also have an area for farmers to record data about the crop…such as dates, tillage, planting, spraying, and production information. Click here to see sample maps.


• Over the years, CIS has established beneficial, professional relationships within the crop insurance industry, and CIS is recognized for their integrity and crop insurance experience. Let CIS use our networking connections and expertise to your benefit! In short, we have the size and clout to sometimes get things done (such as faster claims payment) than other agencies may have the ability to do.

If you insure someone's farm property, provide financing, inputs, or marketing advice, but don't insure their crops, we can help! Don't send your farm clients to the competition!

Grow your farm business!

• Your competition stands to win if you choose not to offer crop insurance. Your farmer client will take his/her crop insurance to your competitor and then you may lose your other business from that client as well. You already have a trusted relationship with that farmer. Shouldn’t you be trusted with their crop insurance too?
• Let CIS help you grow your business by offering crop insurance. We’ll train you in the basics of crop insurance so you can complete an application and we’ll do the rest! Can’t make the sale alone? We can do that too…you just make the appointment. CIS will then service, underwrite, and issue the policy. We’ll do everything that you don’t want to do!
• Whether you are an experienced agency, just beginning to understand crop insurance, or not an agency at all...let us know how active you want to be in crop insurance and we will tailor a service plan and commission agreement specific to your needs and objectives.

Who Does What? It can be as easy as this:

Your Business:

• Contacts client and makes appointment to meet with CIS
• Continues to be the local contact for your client. After all, you created the relationship and we want that to continue.

Note: with experience you can choose to do more, and thus, make more!

Crop Insurance Services:

• Conducts informational group meetings
• Meets one-on-one with client at your office, or with you at their farm.
• Explains coverage, cost, and insured perils
• Recommends best coverage for farmer’s risk tolerance and marketing plan
• Completes the application and obtains farmer’s yield history
• Sends out and collects all required forms and information
• Enters, prints and issues schedule of insurance.
• Direct billing and collection of premium
• Ensures indemnity payment is correct
• Trains you in the basics of crop insurance and its terminology.
• Serves as your crop insurance expert
• Provides free GPS field maps for clients!

Benefits To Your Business:

• You make more money!
• You can offer crop insurance with no added personnel.
• You are freed from time-consuming paperwork and servicing responsibilities of crop insurance policies.
• You don’t have to know all the detailed regulations regarding crop insurance.
• You have access to specialists to answer your questions. We are experts in CRC and RA revenue protection.
• You maintain your client base, and limit your E & O exposure.
• You can attract new clients by offering the latest crop insurance policies like CRC, RA, or production hail policies.

For great crop insurance service call 1-800-767-7110