All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 17 2022 // With planting roughly halfway complete, the 2023 U.S. hard red winter wheat crop is already being hobbled by drought in the heart of the southern Plains, wheat experts said.Planting plans may be scaled back in the U.S....
Oct 11 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Howden, Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK), and Marsh Norway.A summary of these new hires follows here. Howden Appoints Industry Veteran Long to Lead Equine...
Oct 7 2022 // The waters have receded, but the stink lingers. As Emma Reynolds Ezell surveys the damage that a night of 100 mile-per-hour winds wrought on her orange groves, she just can’t get over the stench. It’s nothing...
Oct 5 2022 // Farmers Group Inc. on Oct. 5 said it promoted Raul Vargas to become the company’s 13th president and CEO at the start of 2023.Jeff Dailey, current president and CEO is stepping down but will stay as chairman. Vargas...
Oct 4 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at broker Miller and CNA Hardy.A summary of these new hires follows here. Miller Launches Dedicated Bloodstock and Livestock Team, Led by WTW’s...
Oct 3 2022 // Russia may start providing trade finance to importers of its grain as sanctions imposed on Moscow since it sent troops to Ukraine affect this financial instrument, Agriculture Minister Dmitry Patrushev said.Russia, the...
Sep 30 2022 // A broadly smiling California Gov. Gavin Newsom joined about two dozen jubilant, cheering farmworkers camped outside the state Capitol this week to sign one of the most contentious bills before him this year, reversing...
Sep 28 2022 // Gaylord D. Lincoln and G. Lincoln Farms, LLC, located in Springport, Michigan, have agreed to pay $1,200,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by causing the submission of fraudulent claims for...
Sep 19 2022 // A mid-Michigan organic dairy farm is fighting state safety regulators, five years after a 19-year-old family member was fatally electrocuted while removing a metal pole from a grain bin.The dispute involves the...
Sep 6 2022 // At a 131-year-old maritime academy along Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts, people who will build the nation’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm are learning the skills to stay safe while working around turbines...
Sep 2 2022 // There is only so much farmland in the United States, so when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last spring prompted worries that people would go hungry as wheat remained stuck in blockaded ports, there was little U.S....
Sep 1 2022 // A mid-Michigan organic dairy farm is fighting state safety regulators, five years after a 19-year-old family member was fatally electrocuted while removing a metal pole from a grain bin.The dispute involves the...
Aug 15 2022 // A Georgia dairy farm has been fined after a release of food waste caused a fish kill, a rare instance of government getting involved with a practice that counties can’t regulate despite chronic complaints from...
Aug 15 2022 // Premiums in the federal multi-peril crop insurance (MPCI) program surged in 2021 to a record high of $14.9 billion, an increase of nearly 40% over the previous year, according to an AM Best report.The new Best’s...
Aug 12 2022 // European nations sent firefighting teams to help France tackle a “monster” wildfire on Thursday, while forest blazes also raged in Spain and Portugal and the head of the European Space Agency urged immediate...
Aug 8 2022 // Malaysia will offer government-backed insurance plans to help compensate farmers for losses after natural disasters, as part of measures to strengthen food security.The Agro-Food Takaful Insurance Scheme will be launched...
Jul 29 2022 // Premiums in the federal multi-peril crop insurance (MPCI) program surged in 2021 to a record high of $14.9 billion, an increase of nearly 40% over the previous year, according to an AM Best report.The new Best’s...
Jul 21 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details board changes at Beazley and appointments at Miller and AXA XL.A summary of these new hires follows here. Beazley’s Chair Roberts to Step DownBeazley plc announced...
Jul 18 2022 // Weeks of heat and scant rainfall have left most of Indiana facing either drought or unusually dry conditions while farmers hope significant precipitation falls soon.The U.S. Drought Monitor shows more than a third of...
Jul 11 2022 // Invasive giant African land snails that can eat building plaster and stucco, consume hundreds of varieties of plants and carry diseases that affect humans have been found once again in Florida, where officials said that...