Farm Insurance

Get up to 10% off your first year’s premium (up to $100) when you buy Hobby Farm Insurance online1 and explore cover for your livestock, buildings and more

What is Farm Insurance?

Farm Insurance is designed to help protect your hobby farm, leisure farm or working farm. Both hobby farmers and commercial farmers might want to consider getting cover for what matters most in case certain things go wrong on the farm. We offer Hobby Farm Insurance for smaller leisure farms and Rural Farm Insurance for larger-scale commercial farming businesses.

What does Farm Insurance cover?

Our Farm Insurance allows you to choose from a range of flexible cover options to suit the type and size of your farm.

For hobby or leisure farms with up to 100 acres (40 hectares) of farmland, we offer Hobby Farm Insurance. With our Hobby Farm Insurance, you can choose from the following cover options:

  • Domestic contents
  • Portable contents
  • Farm contents
  • Farm building cover for hay sheds, machinery sheds, stables, workshops and work sheds
  • Farm machinery cover for tractors, headers, quad bikes and ride on mowers
  • Livestock cover for cows, sheep, pigs, horses, alpacas and chickens
  • Internal and external fencing covers
  • Hay.

For rural and working farms with up to 5,000 acres (2,020 hectares) of farmland, we offer Rural Farm Insurance. You can build a policy for your rural farm with these cover options:

  • Fire and other defined events (this cover also includes internal and external fencing)
  • Domestic home and contents
  • Additional working cost
  • Property in transit
  • Burglary or theft
  • Liability
  • Personal accident and illness
  • Machinery
  • Motor vehicles
  • Electronic equipment
  • Tax audit.

What does Farm Insurance not cover?

There are some things we don’t cover under our Farm Insurance. For example, we don’t cover:

  • Your farm for damage or loss caused by floods
  • Your crops and produce while they’re on the vine, tree or in the ground (they are covered after they’ve been harvested)
  • Your livestock if you lose them due to theft (our Livestock cover option does cover loss of livestock caused by a fire or other insured event)
  • Rural contracting businesses, including rural businesses offering harvesting, excavation, land and vegetation clearing, dam building or trenching services.
  • Farms located in the Northern Territory, as NRMA Farm Insurance is not available in the NT.

For more information about what is and isn’t covered by our Farm Insurance products, read the Product Disclosure Statement.

Who is Farm Insurance for?

Farm Insurance is designed for people who own and operate a hobby farm or commercial farm and want to protect what they've built. There are different types of Farm Insurance to suit both hobby farmers and professional farmers (such as cattle, dairy, sheep, vegetable or fruit farmers).

Hobby farmers

If you have a hobby or leisure farm with up to 100 acres (40 hectares) of farmland.

Rural farmers

If you have a rural working farm with up to 5,000 acres (2,020 hectares) of farmland.

Cattle farmers

If you have a working farm with livestock, such as cattle or other farmed animals.

Dairy farmers

If you have a working farm and rear dairy cows.

Fruit and vegetable farmers

If you have a commercial farm or orchard, growing fruit, vegetables or other crops.

Flower farmers

If you grow flowers, seeds or other decorative plants on your commercial farm.

What are the different types of Farm Insurance?

We offer both Hobby Farm Insurance and Rural Farm Insurance to cover farms of different types and sizes. Both of these include a range of common features of a farm, like your farmland and feeding of animals – plus the option to add cover for machinery, domestic contents and more.

Hobby Farm Insurance

What we insure as a leisure and hobby farm

  • Up to 100 acres or 40 hectares of farmland
  • Up to $50,000 in income generated from your farm
  • Selling produce at a farmers market
  • Farm stay with supervised activities
  • Feeding of animals
  • Collection of eggs
  • Milking of cows

What we insure as a leisure and hobby farm

  • Your domestic home

  • Public and Products Liability

Build and customise your policy

Choose from a range of cover options to suit your leisure and hobby farm needs:

  • Domestic contents
  • Portable contents
  • Farm contents
  • Farm building cover for hay sheds, machinery sheds, stables, workshops and work sheds
  • Farm machinery cover for tractors, headers, quad bikes and ride on mowers
  • Livestock cover for cows, sheep, pigs, horses, alpacas and chickens
  • Internal and external fencing covers
  • Hay

Farm Insurance

What we insure as a rural and working farm

  • Up to 5,000 acres or 2,020 hectares of farmland
  • Farm stay with supervised activities
  • Feeding of animals
  • Collection of eggs
  • Milking of cows

What types of farms do we cover?

  • Beef cattle and sheep farmer

  • Dairy farms

  • Fruit and vegetable

  • Cut flowers and flower see growing

  • Farm stays

  • Farmers

Build and customise your policy

Choose from a range of cover options to suit your rural and working farm needs:

  • Fire and other defined events
  • Domestic home and contents
  • Additional working cost
  • Property in transit
  • Burglary or theft
  • Liability
  • Personal accident and illness
  • Machinery
  • Motor vehicles
  • Electronic equipment
  • Tax audit

Farm Insurance FAQs

What types of insurance might a farmer consider?

Whether you’re a grazier, grower, dairy farmer or hobby farmer, Farm Insurance can help protect you and your hard work. 

There are a range of risks and liabilities you may want to get cover for if you run a commercial rural farm. Unexpected events could affect your valued produce, livestock and farm machinery, and impact the income you receive from your farming business. With our Rural Farm Insurance, you can also add cover for theft, burglary, personal accident and illness, and additional working costs in case things go wrong. 

If you have a smaller hobby or leisure farm, you might still consider Farm Insurance. Even if you don’t earn an income from your farm, your farming-related possessions and activities may not be covered by a Home and Contents Insurance policy. 

Owning a smaller farm can still come with a number of risks, like if one of your cows or horses escapes from your property and causes a car crash on the road. Our Hobby Farm Insurance includes Public and Products Liability to help protect you against these events.

What kind of claims are covered by Public and Products Liability Insurance for my farm?

Some examples of claims that may be covered by your Public Liability policy include:

  • A visitor to your farm falls over some tools left on the ground and breaks their ankle
  • You accidentally damage a neighbour’s property with your equipment
  • Your livestock escape their enclosure or fencing and cause a car crash
  • Someone becomes ill after eating a farm product you sold.

These are examples only. For more information, read the Product Disclosure Statement.

How much is Farm Insurance?

It depends on a number of factors, including the type and level of cover you choose, the type and size of your farm and how many staff you have (if you run a commercial farming business).

The quickest way to get an estimate of how much your Farm Insurance policy will cost is to get a quote. 

Why choose NRMA Business Insurance?

We're flexible

Mix and match our policy cover options and pay your premium by the month at no extra cost 

We're trusted

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Roy Morgan Most Trusted Brand Awards 2022, 2023 and 2024

We mean business

Speak to our Australian-based consultants specialised in business insurance

We're here to help

Contact us by phone, web chat, at a branch or via our claims helpline

Need your certificates or tax invoice?

There are 3 ways to get a copy of your Certificate of Currency, Certificate of Insurance or tax invoice:

  1. Check your email to see if you received your policy documents on the date of purchase.
  2. Log in to your account and read our step-by-step process on how to find your documents online.
  3. If you don’t have an account, select the chat button or call us on 132 818.

A Certificate of Currency is proof that you have an active policy.

A Certificate of Insurance shows what your policy covers, the amount covered and the period of cover.

Things you should know

NRMA Farm Insurance is not available in the Northern Territory. 

Our Home Key Facts Sheet (KFS) sets out some of the events/risks covered and not covered by our domestic homes listed in Business Insurance policies and other information you should consider. These sheets do not provide a complete statement of the cover offered, exclusions, conditions and limits that apply under the policies. You should carefully read the Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) and all policy documentation for more details.

  1. You can save up to 10% on the base premium, up to $100, on the Hobby Farm Insurance when you first purchase online. The base premium doesn't include any government or statutory charges. You will only get a discount on your first year's premium. Discounts only apply until you reach your minimum premium, so your discount might be limited by your minimum premium. When we calculate your premium on renewal, we may also limit any increases or decreases by considering factors like your previous year’s premium. This online offer may be withdrawn at any time and is subject to the full terms and conditions

  2. This is general advice only and does not take into account your individual objectives, financial situation or needs (“your personal circumstances”). Before using this advice to decide whether to purchase a product, you should consider your personal circumstances and the relevant Product Disclosure Statement and Target Market Determinations available from this website.