Agricultural references where you might not expect them

 Bauer

This is a common German last name, and therefore a common last name in many other regions of the globe.  It means "farmer."

Category:  Name.  Agricultural category:  farming.
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Boer

This, like Bauer, means "farmer," but in Afrikaans, a variant of Dutch.  Most people know it from the southern African demographic group, which at one time had two republics in southern African and which fought two wars with the United Kingdom.  As Dutch settlers in Africa were almost all farmers, that name attached to them as a group, and to their republics.

Category:  Name.  Agricultural category:  farming.

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Corn Huskers

The nickname of the University of Nebraska's athletic teams derives from a corn farming operation, husking corn.

Category:  Sports mascot.  Agricultural Category:  farming.  

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Farm Bureau Insurance

Farm Bureau Insurance is owned by the National Farm Bureau, a farming organization.  Creating of insurance companies was very common on the part of farming organizations, as well as some other entities, at one time.

Category:  Insurance Company.  Agricultural Category.  Agricultural organization.

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Grange Insurance

Grange is an insurance carrier that, like some others, was started by a farming organization.  In this case, that organization is The Grange, which still owns the carrier.

Category:  Insurance Company.  Agricultural Category:  Agricultural organization.

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National Farmers Union

National Farmers Union is an insurance company that is current a branch of QBE.  The company, like many insurance companies, had its origins in a farmers association, the National Farmers Union.  Today the insurance carrier, while it still writes in the agricultural area, is no longer associated with an organization.

Category:  Insurance company.  Agricultural Category:  Agricultural organization.

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State Farm Insurance Company

Unlike National Farmers Union, State Farm was never owned by an agricultural organization, but as its name implies it too has a farming origin.  State Farm started off as an automobile carrier writing policies for farmers.

Category:  Insurance company.  Agricultural category.

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