All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 24 2024 // AM Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) to A- (Excellent) from A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) to “a-” (Excellent) from “a” (Excellent) of...
Apr 24 2024 // Republican senators this month introduced legislation they say would increase support for crop insurance and make higher levels of coverage more affordable to farmers.Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D) proposed the Federal...
Apr 19 2024 // Hundreds of Vermont farms are still recovering from last July’s catastrophic flooding and other extreme weather as they head into this year’s growing season.Dog River Farm, in Berlin, Vermont, lost nearly all...
Apr 10 2024 // Farmers Insurance Names Coleman President of Business InsuranceFarmers Insurance announced that Eric Coleman has joined the organization as president of Business Insurance, effective April 10. In this role, Coleman is...
Apr 9 2024 // A migrant farmworker who survived a mass shooting last year at a Northern California mushroom farm has filed a lawsuit against the farm and one of its owners, saying they failed to keep him safe from the colleague who...
Apr 3 2024 // Sis-Bro, Inc., a hog farm in New Athens, Illinois, violated federal law when it allowed an employee to be harassed because of her sex and gender identity, forcing her to quit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Apr 1 2024 // Two Colorado Farmers must pay more than $6.5 Million for defrauding federal crop insurance programs, according to U.S. Attorney Cole Finegan.Finegan’s office announced that Patrick Esch and Ed Dean Jagers of...
Mar 28 2024 // American farmers will plant more corn than soybeans in 2024 — as they have in most years for over a century. But beyond that, a green diesel boom threatens to dethrone the king of all crops.President Joe Biden’s...
Mar 27 2024 // Milk from dairy cows in Texas and Kansas has tested positive for bird flu, U.S. officials said Monday.Officials with the Texas Animal Health Commission confirmed the flu virus is the Type A H5N1 strain, known for decades...
Mar 20 2024 // Domino joins Farmers Alliance Board of DirectorsDavid Domino has been elected a director for the Farmers Alliance Companies, headquartered in McPherson, Kansas. Domino will provide guidance, direction and oversight for the...
Mar 18 2024 // Miller Named Vice President, IT for Farmers Alliance Companies Farmers Alliance Companies, headquartered in Mcpherson, Kansas, promoted Brad Miller to vice president, information technology (IT). As vice president, and a...
Mar 12 2024 // Two Colorado Farmers must pay more than $6.5 Million for defrauding federal crop insurance programs, according to U.S. Attorney Cole Finegan.Finegan’s office announced that Patrick Esch and Ed Dean Jagers of...
Mar 4 2024 // When Limba Contreras moved to the desert community of Oasis, California, about 50 years ago, her family relied on a water cooler to keep temperatures inside their home comfortable. Other times, they sprayed each other with...
Feb 29 2024 // LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Horse racing’s federal oversight body says racetracks under its jurisdiction experienced 1.23 racing-related equine fatalities per 1,000 starts in 2023, a much lower rate than at tracks...
Feb 19 2024 // In December, a group of legislators, including Vermont U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, pitched the Withstanding Extreme Agricultural Threats by Harvesting...
Feb 19 2024 // As risks from extreme weather, technology glitches and cyberattacks rise, so does the need for agricultural insurance that can cover a rapidly diversifying and evolving industry.“With the interest rates, production...
Feb 9 2024 // Brazil subsidized rural insurance for farmers who deforested protected areas, engaged in slavery-like labor or planted in indigenous lands, according to a report from a nonprofit group.An investigation by Repórter Brasil...
Feb 6 2024 // The European Commission recommended on Tuesday that the EU slash net greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by 2040, an ambitious target that will test political appetite for the region’s fight against climate change ahead...
Feb 2 2024 // Protesting farmers demanding just prices and less red tape blocked the border between Belgium and the Netherlands on Friday, whilst their peers in France started lifting blockades countrywide after the government made...
Feb 1 2024 // Protesting farmers have blocked the distribution centers of Colruyt, one of Belgium’s biggest supermarket chains, a spokesperson confirmed, while local media reported that distribution centers of discount supermarket...