About Us
We are a Crop Insurance Master Agency based in Spokane, WA
Who We Are
We bring over 60 years of crop insurance industry knowledge to help you grow your agency, and better educate your growers. We currently offer multiple consultants in Montana, Texas & Washington to help provide additional specialized knowledge to our member agents in those regions. Each consultant has more than 15 years of practical experience in the crop insurance industry, and they bring unique insight into insuring the crops & livestock grown in those regions. The Whole Farm Revenue Protection and Micro Farm policies provide meaningful coverage to diverse growers however writing these policy types can be quite complicated to write. Crop West provides additional training and policy updates to our member agents to help them avoid potential errors. Crop West also hosts a Sales Training & Retreat for our member agents each year at a different resort location.
Gary grew up and worked on the family wheat farm in central Montana before moving to Kansas in early 2000. He started his career in crop insurance that same year as an independent crop adjuster and has been in the industry ever since. He is very involved in agriculture and is an avid student of farm programs & ag policy. Gary is a proactive advocate of the federal crop insurance program and routine guest speaker at various industry and grower conferences & conventions.
Degree: B.S. Business Management Southwestern
Member of the Montana Grain Growers Association
Member of Crop Insurance Professionals Association (CIPA)
CIPA Legislative Affairs Committee Member
Crop Insurance Career
* 2000-2001 Independent Crop Adjuster Wichita, KS
* 2002-2003 Crop Insurance Agent and Field Representative G&H Insurance Great Bend, KS
* 2003-2007 Independent Crop Adjuster Wichita, KS
* 2008-2009 Senior Adjuster Rain and Hail LLC. Wichita, KS
* 2010 Claims Representative Rain and Hail LLC. Wichita, KS
* 2011 Field Supervisor Rain and Hail Spokane, WA
* 2012 Claims Manager Rain and Hail Spokane, WA
* 2013-2015 Asst. Vice President Claims Rain and Hail Spokane, WA
* 2016-2018 Vice President Rain and Hail Spokane, WA
* 2019-July 2022 Senior Vice President Rain and Hail Spokane, WA
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