FBL Financial Group, Inc. announced a quarterly cash dividend of $0.44 per share and named a new Class B director. The company's Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.44 per share to owners of Class A and Class B common stock. The dividend will be payable on December 29, 2017 to shareholders of record as of December 15, 2017.

Kevin Paap has been named to FBL Financial Group's Board of Directors as a Class B Director, effective November 15, 2017. Paap is President of the Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation. Paap was elected to the Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation Board of Directors in 1997 and has served as president of the Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation since 2005. He has served as a member of the board of directors of Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company since 2006 and Farm Bureau Property & Casualty Insurance Company since 1997.