448 Tina Owens James Cutler - The biggest repricing of agricultural risk in 70 years
From Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food · 1:02:45
Show by Koen van Seijen
How do we change the entire agriculture and food system? Insurance. Specifically, crop insurance.Farmers who practise regenerative agriculture — cover crops, no-till, crop rotation — are less risky to insure. The problem is that the current US federal crop insurance system doesn’t recognise those practices. It’s backwards-looking by design, which means farmers can’t get insured for the practices that would reduce their risk, and without insurance, they can’t get their operating loans. The system has locked millions of acres into conventional agriculture not because farmers won’t change, but because the financial infrastructure prevents it.That’s starting to change. The world’s largest insurance broker, Aon, used AI to review its own datasets and found an unmistakable signal: regenerative practices at the field level dramatically reduce insurance losses. The first real-world pilot — Michigan’s NextGen Crop Insurance programme — launched in 2026, pricing coverage using field-level soil health data for the first time. Tina Owens, who leads RALIC at TIFS, calls it the largest repricing of risk in seventy years.Tina returns to the podcast after her 2023 episode, joined by James Cutler of DiversiFund, to walk through what’s happening, what it means for farmers, and why this could be the lever that moves regenerative agriculture from the margins to the mainstream.More about this episode.Thoughts? Ideas? Questions? Send us a message!Find out more about our Generation-Re investment syndicate:https://gen-re.land/ Thank you to our Field Builders Circle for supporting us. Learn more hereSupport the show=======In Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food podcast show we talk to the pioneers in the regenerative food and agriculture space to learn more on how to put our money to work to regenerate soil, people, local communities and ecosystems while making an appropriate and fair return. Hosted by Koen van Seijen.👩🏻💻 VISIT OUR WEBSITE 📚 JOIN OUR VIDEO COURSE 💪🏻 SUPPORT OUR WORKJoin GumroadShare itGive a 5-star ratingBuy us a coffee… or a meal! =======🎙 YouTube channel🔗 Linkedin📸 InstagramJoin our newsletter!=======The above references an opinion and is for information and educational purposes only. It is not intended to be investment advice. Seek a duly licensed financial advisor or investment professional before making any financial decisions.Feedback, ideas, suggestions? Get in touch!
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