Farm Liability for Damage by Fire

Similar to the CGL form, the farm liability policy provides fire legal liability for damage by fire to a rented premises. We have a farmer who leases a field on which he grew a crop. During harvesting, the machinery he used caught fire and burned the crop. The policy would pay for fire damage to leased premises for which the insured was liable, but what about the crop? Is the crop part of the premises?

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