All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 24 2012 // Is a person hired to perform seasonal, part-time tasks for a company owner, based on a referral from an employee of the company, an employee or a temporary worker? It depends, according to Missouri’s high court...
Sep 24 2012 // A nice office view, lots of raises — and a Costco membership. Those are the keys to making employees happy. And those are among the reasons Meyer & Cook Insurance was selected as the Best Agency to Work For in the...
Sep 20 2012 // A report out Thursday urges the insurance industry to act to protect itself and the community against the increasing frequency of extreme weather due to climate change.In short, the report, its authors and those endorsing...
Sep 19 2012 // A leading North Carolina property insurer has seen its credit rating downgraded due to a significant decrease in its underwriting revenue and its potential for large losses due to hurricanes and other severe weather...
Sep 18 2012 // Thousands of farmers are filing insurance claims this year after drought and triple-digit temperatures burned up crops across the nation’s Corn Belt, and some experts are predicting record insurance losses —...
Sep 14 2012 // Six mutual insurance companies have been inducted into the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies’ (NAMIC) Century Club in recognition of 100 years of serving their policyholders. Five of the new members...
Sep 12 2012 // It may be November before the U.S. Congress completes the new $500 billion U.S. farm bill as lawmakers cannot agree on how much to cut support to farmers or food stamps for the poor.“We’re stuck at the...
Sep 12 2012 // An assessment won’t be finalized until all harvests are complete, but it appears that an estimated $100 million in losses to Louisiana’s row crop industry resulted from Hurricane Isaac, state agriculture...
Sep 10 2012 // U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow says Michigan’s cherry growers are getting new crop insurance options. The Michigan Democrat is head of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee.According to Stabenow’s...
Sep 7 2012 // The U.S. Agriculture Department has declared Broadwater, Gallatin, Jefferson and Silver Bow counties disaster areas, making farmers and ranchers there eligible for low-interest emergency loans. The assistance is meant to...
Sep 7 2012 // Some upper Midwest farmers who thought they caught a break when the federal government eased crop insurance rules for land hit by prolonged flooding are finding it isn’t as easy to cash in as they first...
Sep 7 2012 // Aon Benfield’s latest edition of its Global Catastrophe Recap report, which reviews the natural disaster perils that occurred worldwide during August, notes that Hurricane Isaac was “the first land falling...
Sep 6 2012 // Is a person hired to perform seasonal, part-time tasks for a company owner, based on a referral from an employee of the company, an employee or a temporary worker? It depends, according to Missouri’s high court...
Sep 4 2012 // El Nino weather conditions, which can bring droughts to parts of Asia and affect crops, have emerged but will likely be weak and short lived, New Zealand scientists said on Tuesday.El Nino is a warming of sea surface...
Aug 31 2012 // Some key U.S. farm states punished by the nation’s worst drought in decades benefited slightly from recent rains, with more rain on the way from the remnants of Hurricane Isaac.The weekly U.S. Drought Monitor map...
Aug 30 2012 // Farmers, crop inspectors and grain elevators in Nebraska, Iowa and other corn-producing states are keeping an eye out for corn contaminated by a poison-producing fungus.They’re watching for signs of aflatoxins that,...
Aug 30 2012 // U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow says Michigan’s cherry growers are getting new crop insurance options.The Michigan Democrat serves as head of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee. She announced details...
Aug 29 2012 // Arkansas agriculture officials say Hurricane Isaac would bring welcome rain to the state, but producers are worried about the stormy conditions that would accompany the precipitation.Pope County Extension Agent Phil Sims...
Aug 28 2012 // In addition to destroying homes and buildings and displacing residents in the storm’s path, Tropical Storm Isaac, which may reach hurricane strength by the time it makes landfall, also has the potential to wreck what...
Aug 28 2012 // The drought in the U.S. agricultural heartland continues to deteriorate crops in the Corn Belt with no meaningful precipitation relief in sight. After the hottest July on record, insured losses from the 2012 drought are...