The largest rural insurance provider in Australia, Elders Insurance, has posted healthy results for the first half of this year. Parent company Futuris says Elders achieved gross written premium of $194.4 million – 6% higher than the 2004 first-half figure of $184.1 million.

Elders earned a further $4.6 million investment interest from its insurance operations compared with $3.4 million in the 2004 first half.