Aon and SAGE Bring Field-Level Agricultural Intelligence to Crop Insurance
Key Highlights
- ➤2027 program covers corn and soybean growers across 15 U.S. states
- ➤Michigan pilot encompasses more than one million agricultural acres
- ➤Aon, SAGE and AgriCap launch field-level precision crop insurance
- ➤Federal crop insurance covers nearly 90 percent of U.S. corn and soybean acreage
- ➤RALIC pilot represents approximately 12 percent of Michigan farmland
Expert Statements
Jonathan Sherrill, Senior Vice President, Agriculture Resilience Center, Aon
“With this new approach, we can translate what is happening on the land into risk signals that the insurance market can understand and act upon”
Jonathan Sherrill, Senior Vice President, Agriculture Resilience Center, Aon
“When we make resilience visible, it can be underwritten, which means we can syndicate capital behind it.”
Bill Veghte, CEO and Co-Founder, SAGE
“Farmers have understood that every field is different, but the ability of the USDA and the insurance industry to understand those differences at scale has been a significant obstacle”
Bill Veghte, CEO and Co-Founder, SAGE
“The SAGE AI engine brings together billions of datapoints together in a way that simply wasn’t feasible before advancements in AI, creating a much clearer picture of the factors influencing risk and resilience from the individual field to the entire U.S. corn belt.”
Robert Bonnie, Former USDA Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation and SAGE co-founder
“Field-level intelligence provides an opportunity to reward farmers' investments in resilience through better crop insurance options”
Tina Owens, Founder of RALIC, a program of Transformational Investing in Food Systems
“Crop insurance is central to American agriculture and RALIC developed this pilot to test whether insurance could better recognize farmers who build resilience on their land”
Tina Owens, Founder of RALIC, a program of Transformational Investing in Food Systems
“The work in Michigan is showing real demand from growers, and we are looking forward to helping expand precision crop insurance across the corn belt.”
CHICAGO and MENLO PARK, Calif., Oct. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aon plc (NYSE:AON), a leading global professional services firm, and SAGE, an AI-native agricultural risk intelligence company, today announced the launch of a new precision crop insurance program in the U.S. to assess agricultural risk more accurately and help price insurance more effectively.
In collaboration with AgriCap, a specialty agricultural insurance provider, the program will be available to corn and soybean growers in 15 states for the 2027 crop year. The coverage is designed to complement federal crop insurance by more precisely matching coverage to the value being protected and the underlying risk at the field level.
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