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Earn Your Agribusiness and Farm Insurance Specialist Certification

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The Agribusiness and Farm Insurance Specialist (AFIS®) continuing education program was developed to provide an opportunity for insurance agents, brokers, customer service representatives, and in-house risk managers or insurance buyers to gain specialized expertise in agribusiness and farm insurance and risk management. Completing the AFIS certification will ensure that you understand the most important insurance needs of agribusinesses and farms.

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Earn Your AFIS Certification

At only $149 per course, you can take all five core courses online and earn the AFIS certification for only $745! Insurance CE Credit is available for $17 more per course.

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Verify Your Expertise With the AFIS Digital Badge

Share your achievement and provide verification of your specialized knowledge with an IRMI Certification Digital Badge. IRMI has partnered with Credly Acclaim, the largest and most-connected digital credential network with best-in-class security and privacy features. After earning your credentials, you can display your digital badge on your LinkedIn profile, in your email signature, and on a variety of social media and digital platforms.

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Benefits of AFIS Certification

Credibility
With the AFIS certification behind your name, you make a statement to agriculture and farm professionals that you understand the unique insurance needs of the agribusiness industry and how to meet them.

Convenience
All AFIS core and renewal courses can be completed 100% online at your own pace. IRMI has partnered with WebCE to create the IRMI Learning Center, a user-friendly platform backed by WebCE's award-winning US-based live customer support.

Visibility
Once you earn your certification, you will appear in the IRMI Certification Directory—a powerful online tool that allows insurance buyers or employers to find someone with specialized risk management expertise by certification, location, or name—providing maximum exposure for the credentials you’ve earned.

More Sales
Retail insurance agents and brokers will parlay their increased expertise, confidence, and credibility into more sales to agriculture and farm industry accounts.

Better Coverage
Knowledge gained from the AFIS courses will help you eliminate dangerous coverage gaps and provide better protection for your employer or your clients.

Career Advancement
The specialized knowledge and credibility you gain from the AFIS program will make you a more valuable employee and help you achieve your career goals.

Networking
An AFIS certification provides you access to fellow industry experts through exclusive online communities.

CE Credit
Insurance agents or brokers can simultaneously get convenient state insurance CE credit and an insurance industry certification at a very low cost.


AFIS Certification Core Courses

Buildings and contents located on a farm are unique. The buildings may function for the insureds’ personal use (such as their home) or their business use (such as their farm/ranch operations), and the personal property may include both household and farm business property. There are also items that do move around on and off the farm premises, such as tractors, combines, and livestock. This course explains the various exposure and reviews the forms that can be used to address them. 

Enroll in the Farm Property Course

A normal farming operation consists of such things as cultivation of soil, production of crops, raising of livestock, and other incidental operations like operating a roadside stand on the premises. One of the unique aspects of farm liability is that the farm premises can consist of a combination of residential and commercial exposures. This course looks at the various liability loss exposures present and answers the question,  “In what situations can a farmer or rancher be held legally responsible for incidents that happen on the farm premises or from products raised on the farm and later sold?” 

Enroll in the Farm Liability Course

Having a farm liability policy or a commercial general liability policy does not protect a farming operation from all liability exposures. The use of vehicles that are as varied as the operations themselves creates exposures as do workers involved in the operations. This course examines other forms of liability insurance that cover these exposures and provides information about excess liability and umbrella policies that may be required  to ensure insurance limits are sufficient to fulfill any judgements arising from all farm liabilities.

Enroll in the Farm Auto, Workers Compensation, and Umbrella Insurance Course

Standard farm policies may not address some of the unique exposures that can arise during normal farming operations and require insurance coverage beyond the standard farm policies. For example, exposures can arise from equipment breakdown, mobile agricultural machinery and equipment, livestock, and crops. These may require specialized coverages to properly address these exposures.  This course reviews theses exposures and coverage options for addressing the exposures.

Enroll in the Special Farm Property Insurance Lines Course

Like all industries, farming and agribusiness operations are being subjected to increased levels of scrutiny in areas that have not traditionally considered exposures. Exposures arising from pollution liabilities, management liability such as employment practices liabilities, and crime are just some of the areas that must be reviewed and addressed when crafting an insurance program that properly protects farming operations. This course focuses on identifying these exposures and addressing them through risk management techniques and specialized insurance coverages.

Enroll in the Miscellaneous Farm Insurance Lines Course

Earn, Renew, and Promote Your AFIS Certification

Take Core Courses
To Earn Your AFIS

To earn your AFIS certification, you must complete five required courses. You can take them online, at an IRMI Emmett J Vaughan Agribusiness Conference (AgriCon), or a combination of both.

Annual Reaccreditation
Requirements

To renew your AFIS certification, you must complete 6 hours of approved continuing education credit each year. You can take an online course, attend an IRMI Emmett J Vaughan Agribusiness Conference (AgriCon), or attend an approved educational event.

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AFIS Credentials

Put your credentials to work for you and market your expertise by promoting your distinguished accomplishment with our AFIS Digital Toolkit.

IRMI Certification Directory

Need another reason to earn your AFIS certification? 

Once you earn your certification, you will appear in the IRMI Certification Directory—a powerful online tool that allows insurance buyers or employers to find someone with specialized risk management expertise by certification, location, or name—providing maximum exposure for the credentials you’ve earned.

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Save When You Earn More Than One Certification

Take advantage of our reciprocity discount program to earn additional credentials, renew your certification, and save money. Learn how on our FAQ page and start earning multiple certifications today.

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