Farmers Harvest Enhanced Liquidity Package 10-Year review

It depends on what you're optimizing for. If you want the highest possible crediting rates a 10-year Farmers Harvest can offer, this is not that contract — the plain version pays more on every strategy. If you specifically want more penalty-free access than a typical FIA gives you, plus a built-in waiver for nursing-home or terminal-illness scenarios, this version earns its keep. It's a good annuity for a narrower audience, not a broadly better version of the base product.

Someone would choose this over the plain 10-Year Farmers Harvest because they've decided that access and care protection matter more to them than squeezing out the last point of cap or participation rate. A buyer who is a little older, has some health uncertainty, or simply doesn't like the idea of a rigid 10% free-withdrawal ceiling for a full decade would find the 20% allowance and 30-day reset genuinely useful. The nursing-home/terminal-illness waiver adds a real safety valve that the base contract doesn't have at all.

This fits buyers in their late 50s through 70s, funding the contract with money they mostly intend to leave alone but want more breathing room around than a standard FIA free-withdrawal provision allows — including people who are candidates for long-term-care needs down the road and want that risk addressed contractually rather than left to chance. It's a weaker fit for a buyer purely chasing growth, since the same premium in the plain 10-Year version earns a higher cap or participation rate on every available strategy.

You are not buying a better version of the Farmers Harvest 10-Year — you're buying a different configuration of the same base contract, priced accordingly. The "package" label makes it sound like an add-on, but structurally it's baked into this specific product SKU: you can't buy the plain 10-Year Farmers Harvest and bolt the Enhanced Liquidity Package onto it later, and you can't remove the package from this SKU to recover the higher base rates. What you're actually buying is a lower-yielding version of the same principal-protected, index-linked accumulation vehicle, with the difference in yield redirected into contractual liquidity and a care-related waiver.

Like the base contract, this annuity credits interest annually based on the performance of one or more indices — the S&P 500, the S&P U.S. Dividend Growers VA RC2 7.5% Index, the Nasdaq-100 Volatility Control 7% Index, or the Bloomberg Global Momentum Diversified Leaders 5% ER Index — using an annual point-to-point cap, an annual point-to-point participation rate with no cap, or "Enhanced" versions of either that raise the cap or participation rate in exchange for a 0.95% annual fee on the allocated amount. A fixed account (currently 3.75%) is also available. The mechanics are identical to the plain 10-Year version; what's different is the numbers. Per the current rate sheet, the standard S&P 500 cap here is 7.50% (9.25% Enhanced) versus 9.50% (11.50% Enhanced) on the base contract, and participation rates run 10 to 25 percentage points lower across the other three indices, depending on strategy.

The Enhanced Liquidity Package is really two riders bundled together and priced through reduced crediting rather than a separate fee line. The Enhanced Liquidity Rider raises the penalty-free withdrawal allowance to 20% of Contract Value in any year where no withdrawal was taken the prior year, and cuts the carryover wait from a full year down to 30 days — a meaningfully faster and larger allowance than the base contract's standard 10% provision. The Enhanced Benefit Rider, bundled in the same package, waives surrender charges and the market value adjustment after the first contract year if the owner is terminally ill (life expectancy under one year) or confined to a qualified nursing facility for at least 90 consecutive days. Both come at no separately-disclosed dollar fee — the cost shows up instead as the lower caps and participation rates described above. Note the choice architecture: this package is not available in combination with either the Premium Bonus Rider or the Enhanced Premium Bonus Rider. A buyer picks liquidity-and-care protection or a premium bonus at issue — never both on the same contract.

There's no separate M&E charge, product fee, or administration charge disclosed on the base contract, and that carries over here. The only explicit dollar fee is the familiar 0.95% annual charge on amounts allocated to the Enhanced crediting strategies — identical to the base contract. The real cost of this product lives in what isn't labeled a fee: the standard (non-Enhanced) crediting rates on this SKU are lower across the board than the standard rates on the plain 10-Year Farmers Harvest, and the fixed account pays 3.75% here versus 4.00% on the base contract. That's the actual price of the liquidity-and-care package, and it compounds every year you hold the contract, not just once. Buyers should treat the tradeoff as ongoing, not a one-time cost.

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A.M. Best Rating: B++