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Agricultural Building Valuation Solutions

BVS Agricultural - Understanding Agricultural Valuation and Exposure

BVS Agricultural enables you to manage your agricultural business effectively and efficiently by delivering objective, credible and accurate building reconstruction cost estimates based on the varied nature of properties, fixtures, and equipment. The trusted data provided forms the basis for rating, setting policy limits, establishing exposure valuations and aggregate exposures and performing catastrophe modeling.

Automated, Robust Functionality

The construction cost data MSB provides on agricultural risks reflects the depth of research and proven understanding that we have about these properties. The data enables users to develop accurate, risk-specific reconstruction estimates for the agricultural accounts they insure. Some of the structures and fixtures included in MSB's BVS Agricultural software include

• Barns, including one- and two-story, lofted, bank, farrowing to finish and other special-purpose barns
• Storage buildings and commodity warehouses including bulk fertilizer storage buildings
• Silos, including silos, including concrete stave and poured, glass lined, steel and horizontal (bunker)
• Specialized buildings including stables, arenas and poultry buildings
• Special use buildings including milkhouses, milking parlors, greenhouses
• Storage structures including granaries, corn cribs and other crop storage structures
• A wide variety of equipment including scales, stalls and tie stalls, stanchions, silo unloaders, barn cleaners and other barn fixtures and equipment

BVS Agricultural  is available via BVS Express™, a convenient Web-hosted environment, or in network or desktop installations. Regardless of how you choose to deploy BVS Agricultural, the powerful component-designed architecture and ease of integration with your other critical business systems enable you to

• Create reconstruction cost estimates for agricultural buildings, with the option to generate estimates on a new construction or actual cash value basis.
• Use just five pieces of readily available information to generate an estimate of building reconstruction costs.
• Refine estimates by editing features in hundreds of categories, such as interior and exterior wall materials, roof covering and slope, interior finishes and details, mechanical systems and commercial equipment.
• Access administrative tools and generate reports that can be printed in a variety of file formats for valuation archiving.