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father on the family farm and at Pioneer Grain
Company. He began his Great American career
in the Saskatoon, Saskatchewan office and moved
his family to the Overland Park office in 1992. He
later relocated to Cincinnati when Great American moved its Crop Division headquarters. Dean
has his CPCU (Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter) and ARe (Associate in Reinsurance)
designations.
Dean has been a member of the NCIS Crop
Hail Actuarial & Statistics Committee since 2001.
He currently serves as Chairman of the Committee, a role he has held since 2017. Prior to that, he
was Vice Chairman for several years. Dean's deep
understanding of the Crop Hail program make
him an invaluable member of the Committee. He
is always willing to share his knowledge and ideas
to help improve NCIS's filings and final average
loss cost (FALC) analyses.

Dean Clarke was presented with the 2020 Crop Insurance Industry Leadership-Standing
Committee Award by Tom Zacharias (left), President of National Crop Insurance Services, and Jim
Korin (right), Chairman of the National Crop Insurance Services Board of Directors.

Darci Wagner Receives Crop Insurance
Outstanding Service Award
Darci Wagner, Circle Insurance Agency, Circle, Mont., was the recipient of the 2020 Crop
Insurance Industry Outstanding Service Award
in recognition for outstanding service and outreach to small, limited resource, and socially disadvantaged farmers. The award was presented
during the 2020 Crop Insurance Industry Annual
Convention.
Darci Wagner started her career in crop insurance in 1993 and has spent countless hours
since building a large crop insurance book of
business in the state of Montana. The keys to her
success have been providing excellent service to
her producers while keeping them apprised of all
policy changes and updates.
Darci grew up in the Flathead Valley area of
Northwest Montana and graduated from Montana State University with a bachelor's degree in
Elementary Education. She started her teaching
career in Vida, MT, and taught grades 5 through
8. She met and married a local third generation
farmer, Bruce Wagner, and together they have
raised four beautiful daughters on their farm
near Circle, MT, where they raise wheat, dry
peas, barley, and other crops.
Her clientele outreach is quite diversified and
includes female growers, Native Americans and
several young growers that are just getting themselves established in production agriculture. She

Darci Wagner was presented with the 2020 Crop Insurance Industry Outstanding Service Award
by Tom Zacharias (left), President of National Crop Insurance Services, and Jim Korin (right),
Chairman of the National Crop Insurance Services Board of Directors.

was very pleased with the changes in the 2014
Farm Bill that provided additional assistance for
Beginning Farmers and Ranchers and she currently has three young growers who are participating in that very helpful program. The 2018
Farm Bill also brought about another enhancement that she was excited about and that was

the Veteran Farmer and Rancher benefits. Darci
provided additional education through a local
grower meeting in 2015 when the Whole Farm
Revenue Protection policy was introduced.
Darci has an excellent reputation with growers and is held in the highest regard among the
members of the crop insurance industry.
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