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Palmetto State Insurance Agency

Palmetto State Insurance's Agribusiness division provides competitively priced programs for farms, ranches, wineries and large commercial growers of agricultural products. Our business is marketed through our regional offices across the southeast and our agents are positioned to respond to customers' needs. Palmetto State Insurance Agribusiness writes farm insurance and ranch insurance in South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia.

In farming, conditions change.Sometimes even overnight.

At Palmetto State Insurance, we know the risks you face can reach, well, sky-high. That’s why our dedicated team of farm insurance specialists makes personal field visits to your farm to better understand your operation and its changing dynamics. By identifying your risks and exposures, our agents can create policies that are in-synch with your growing business. To find out how, contact your local Palmetto State Insurance agent.


Farm Insurance

Coverage Highlights


Home, Personal Property coverage The Farm/Ranch policy provides coverage for your home and personal property, such as your clothes, furniture and appliances.

Loss of Use coverage provides payment for certain losses when your home is damaged and rendered uninhabitable because of an insured loss.

Farm Property
Regardless of your size, these coverages can be tailored to fit the specific needs of your farm to cover your farm personal property and farm buildings and structures.

Scheduled Farm Property coverage provides protection against specified perils for the farm personal property that you specifically name.

Unscheduled Farm Personal Property coverage provides specified perils coverage for the farm personal property that you use in your farming operations.

Farm Buildings and Structures coverage provides specified perils coverage for farm buildings and structures you specifically describe.

For an additional premium, coverage for your farm machinery, farm buildings and structures can include accidental direct physical losses. This coverage may provide for additional losses such as partial or total collapse of farm buildings.

Specified perils include:

  • Fire or lightning                                                                          
  • Windstorm or hail
  • Theft
  • Smoke
  • Vandalism or malicious mischief
  • Collision
  • Explosion
  • Vehicles
  • Aircraft
  • Riot or civil commotion

Additional perils for livestock (included at no extra charge):

  • Attack of livestock by wild animals or dogs (loss to sheep not included)
  • Accidental drowning of livestock
  • Accidental shooting of livestock
  • Accidental electrocution of livestock

Farm Liability Coverage provides payment for your legal liability up to the limits in the policy for damages because of bodily injury or property damage caused by an occurrence to which this insurance applies.

Medical Payments to Others. This coverage provides medical expenses up to the limits in the policy for people who are on your premises with your permission and are accidentally injured. Coverage also extends to people accidentally injured by your activities. However, this coverage does not extend to you, your family or employees.

Additional Coverages

  • Chemical Drift Liability
  • Damage to Property of Others
  • Theft
  • Claims Expenses

Optional Coverages

  • Business Pursuits Liability
  • Incidental Business Activities
  • Custom Farming
  • Custom Feeding
  • Limited Pollution Liability


Also Available

  • Crop-Hail
  • Multi-Peril Crop
  • Companion Hail Insurance

Donnie Watts
803-920-6929
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Gregg Matthews
803-622-7570
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Darryl Starkey
803-730-7507
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Palmetto State Insurance Agency, LLC
P.O. Box 967
Lexington, SC 29071
803-785-PSIA (7742)
Fax 803-785-7743