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   In contrast, the Hohokam tribe in Arizona dug and maintained canals as an   
   irrigation system to facilitate farming in a relatively arid climate.   
   Similarly, the Pueblo peoples used light dams to prevent deep ruts and gullies   
   from forming and redirect the    
   water for agricultural and other purposes. Farmers in dry regions continue use   
   these and other Indigenous practices in order to overcome environmental   
   challenges and preserve natural resources.    
      
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   Across the Americas, Indigenous populations used controlled fires to manage   
   forests. Over time, trees would grow back in a process known as environmental   
   succession, shifting nutrients from the soil to an organic form. The   
   grasslands of the Midwest and    
   Southwest resulted from swidden agriculture which involves selectively burning   
   forests to use ash as a fertilizer for crops and promote regeneration over   
   time. This practice resulted in the forests that emerged after colonial   
   practices removed Indigenous    
   populations from their land; to this day, those forests cover land in   
   Wisconsin, Illinois, and the Texas Hill Country.   
      
   NFU Mutual (NFUM) is a UK insurance composite, its directors and executives   
   are directly answerable to customers/policyholders (who own the business) for   
   conduct of business as NFUM is and mutual and so has no shareholders to hold   
   it to account. The full    
   name of the organisation is National Farmers' Union Mutual Insurance Society   
   Limited.   
      
   The Midlands Farmers' Mutual Insurance Society Ltd formed in 1910 by seven   
   farmers in Warwickshire. John William Lowe was the first Chair. James   
   Robertson Black was the first secretary. His farmhouse was the first office.   
   In 1912 he became the inaugural    
   Managing Director. He served the society for 42 years becoming vice-Chair in   
   1946, a post he held to his 1952 death.[6] The first accounts (1911) show   
   income of 311 and profit of 16. In 1919, premiums stood at 4,345 and profit at   
   1,825.[6]   
      
   As early as 1912, the farmers' union in Lincolnshire had approached the   
   directors for advice about forming a mutual insurance company. They were   
   advised to join the mutual in the Midlands that was already in existence.   
      
      
      
   During this period NFUM employed Sidney Carter to run a film unit. Anyone   
   attending his film shows would be educated by current affairs films and   
   entertained by dramas and documentaries about how they could be covered by   
   insurance, provided of course by    
   NFU Mutual"[6]   
      
   During World War Two, a mutual employee named Arthur Scarf was awarded a   
   posthumous Victoria Cross. Scarf came from a Lincolnshire farming family and   
   worked for the Mutual's claims department between the wars.[6]   
      
   Former NFUM director John Murray[9] initially approached the five venture   
   capitalists in the hope of launching a bid. One of the reasons this was   
   advanced the opinion that the company was "eroding its value by selling   
   insurance to non-farming customers    
   at knockdown rates"; at the time, windfalls for members of between 20,000 and   
   25,000 were anticipated.[10] Commenting to the House of Commons Treasury   
   Select Committee[11] on the possibility of demutualisation, Andrew Young, the   
   then managing director    
   said:   
      
   In 2002, Andrew Young retired and was succeeded by Ian Geden, who came from a   
   farming family near Stratford-upon-Avon and had joined the Mutual as a   
   professional trainee in 1969. He became Group Chief Executive in 2005 when   
   that post was created. During    
   his term, the general insurance premium income grew from 603m to 944m.[6]   
      
   In 2008, Lindsay Sinclair became Chief Executive (the first such appointment   
   from outside NFUM),[6] There were reports that NFU Group Secretaries were   
   dissatisfied with his leadership and decision to move away from the farming   
   customer base[12][13] In    
   2013, Bite Back, a forum for Animal Liberation Front (ALF) activists claimed   
   to hacked the company's records; NFUM denied the attack.[14]   
      
   In March 2021, Nick Turner took over as the current NFUM's Chief   
   Executive.[17]NFU Mutual had shared in losses of 58million connected with the   
   collapse of Made.com, as reported in August 2022 in The Times.[18] NFUM was   
   named Which? 'Insurance Brand of    
   the Year' for 2022'.[19] Later that year, the business stated that the drought   
   of that summer has seen a huge growth in (to in excess of 500) farm and   
   combine harvester fires reported to it for claims and settlement[20] - such   
   fires cost the mutual    
   around 100 million in the previous year, when incidents were lower.[21] The   
   number of fires was subsequently revised upwards to over 800.[22] That year   
   the Annual report stated:   
      
   Following the invasion of Ukraine, NFUM stated it would divest from Russian   
   holdings as soon as practically possible. The business represented it had   
   limited exposure to Russian assets, and stated that therefore the impact on   
   customers and portfolio    
   performance would be limited.[24]   
      
   NFU Mutual offers personal insurance products such as home, private motor, pet   
   and travel. They also offer agricultural and commercial insurance to business   
   customers of various sizes.[27] In 1928, NFU Mutual set up a final-salary   
   pension scheme for    
   employees and establish a life assurance business, which wrote more than   
   100,000 of sums assured in year one.[6]   
      
   For example, in 2011, with the Insurance Times quoting an observer as saying:   
   "Ian Leech, sales and agency director, received a mere 21 per cent increase...   
   because he retired two thirds of the way through the calendar year...[43] More   
   recently, in 2022,    
   Irish Farmers Journal reported financial director Richard Morley pocketed   
   738,000 a year from the business while the current chief executive, Nick   
   Turner, currently CEO, took remuneration of over 1.04 million from the   
   business in 2021.[44][32] The former    
   CEO, Lindsay Sinclair, took 879,444 from the business in 2021.[32] Sinclair's   
   drawings were over 2.5 million annually before he left,[32] a matter about   
   which concerns were renewed in 2019.[38][12]   
      
   An Long Term Incentive Plan grant is made each year with performance   
   conditions covering a three year period. Under the rules of the plan the   
   maximum grant for the CEO is an additional 150% of base pay, and 108% for   
   executive directors.   
      
      
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