All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 4 2012 // San Joaquin Valley’s crop damage estimate from a hail storm in April has reached more than $79 million. The Fresno Bee reported that Kings County, among the hardest hit areas of the region, recently increased its...
May 30 2012 // The havoc wreaked by Hurricane Andrew in Homestead, Florida two decades ago still serves as a warning about the devastation even a slow tropical storm season can bring.Homestead was ground zero when Andrew plowed ashore in...
May 29 2012 // A Colorado farm that was traced to a listeria outbreak in cantaloupe last year has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Jensen Farms declined to comment on its filing Friday. Its attorney Jim Markus told The Denver...
May 21 2012 // Swiss Re announced that CEO Michel Liès has signed a letter of intent to participate in a “New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition,” which will begin work following the G-8 summit at Camp David.Those...
May 21 2012 // A fierce spring storm that shredded Central California orchards last month caused more than $20 million damage in Kings County.Other San Joaquin Valley counties are still tallying the damage to crops when quarter-sized...
May 18 2012 // San Joaquin Valley’s crop damage estimate from a hail storm last month has reached more than $79 million. The Fresno Bee reports that Kings County, among the hardest hit areas of the region, recently increased its...
May 15 2012 // The Zurich Insurance Group reported a business operating profit (BOP) for the first quarter of 2012 of $1.3758 billion, a 62 percent rise from $854 million in Q1 2011, and net income after tax of $1.143 billion for the...
May 11 2012 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating to B++ (Good) from A- (Excellent) and issuer credit rating to “bbb” from “a-” of Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. of Arkansas Inc....
May 9 2012 // The U.S. Climate Prediction Center (CPC) said the La Nina pattern blamed for a crippling drought in Texas and severe dry spells in South America has vanished as expected and is unlikely to reappear later this year.U.S....
May 7 2012 // Farmers Insurance Exchange has requested an average 39 percent statewide increase for its 25,500 insured homeowners in Louisiana. Details on which areas would receive the largest increases – or decreases – are...
May 7 2012 // The original criteria and objective definition for Super Regional P/C Insurersª was established in the Feb. 12, 2007, issue of Insurance Journal. Prior to the establishment of an industry-wide definition, a number of...
May 7 2012 // Farmers Insurance is a household name on the West Coast. But on the East Coast? Not so much. The 85-year-old insurer wants to change that, with a big expansion plan east of the Mississippi.“We are the third-largest...
May 3 2012 // A fierce spring storm that shredded Central California orchards last month caused more than $20 million damage in Kings County.Other San Joaquin Valley counties are still tallying the damage to crops when quarter-sized...
Apr 27 2012 // U.S. farmers will get a new crop-subsidy program that protects them from ruinous declines in revenue, the biggest threat to survival with today’s high and volatile prices, a Senate committee decided on Thursday.The...
Apr 26 2012 // A proposal to regulate ownership of lions, monkeys and other dangerous exotic animals in Ohio cleared a state legislative panel on April 25 and was headed to the full Senate for an afternoon vote.The state Senate’s...
Apr 23 2012 // Jim Rexroth knows what happens when drivers don’t pay attention to large farm equipment traveling on rural roads.The Lower Windsor Township, York County, Penn., farmer and his employees at Rexroth Farms have been...
Apr 23 2012 // U.S. farm subsidies would get a 21st Century make-over to protect grower revenue from ruinous losses, the biggest threat to their operations from today’s high and volatile market prices, under a bill unveiled by...
Apr 19 2012 // The Missouri House has endorsed legislation that would make it a crime for undercover activists to produce videos portraying poor conditions at livestock farms or other agricultural facilities.The legislation given...
Apr 18 2012 // Six of Missouri’s 13 recent confirmed cases of E. coli have been linked to the consumption of unpasteurized milk or raw dairy products from a farm in Howard County although the source of the infection has not been...
Apr 18 2012 // Agriculture officials in Arkansas and Louisiana have warned veterinarians to watch for signs of a potentially fatal horse disease if there’s another drought this year.The disease is often called pigeon fever because...