All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 26 2011 // Rice farmers have nearly a month to file for part of a $750 million settlement to claims that they lost money because Bayer CropScience mistakenly sold genetically modified seed in the United States.The original deadline...
Oct 26 2011 // Lawmakers working on the next Farm Bill need to find an effective way to provide aid to farmers affected by natural disasters, increase funding for agricultural research and continue important conservation programs,...
Oct 24 2011 // The towering wall of billowing red dust roaring across the blue West Texas sky on Oct. 17 took Monroe Debusk back more than eight decades to the Dust Bowl years when he was growing up on his family’s cotton farm.The...
Oct 18 2011 // In a year when severe drought scorched the Southwest, a hurricane drowned crops in the East, and river flooding swamped farms in the Midwest, one of the worst places to be a farmer may be just west of the Mississippi...
Oct 18 2011 // Reduced yields in some crops will hurt North Dakota’s economy, officials say.The U.S. Agriculture Department has reported that floods, hail, wind and early frost will mean farmers will harvest about half as much from...
Oct 17 2011 // The government expressed confidence Sunday that Bangkok will escape Thailand’s worst flooding in decades, as the capital’s elaborate barriers held strong and floodwaters receded from submerged plains to the...
Oct 17 2011 // The merger of insurer Nationwide Mutual with regional carrier Harleysville Mutual is all about growth, not only for the companies but also for their independent agents, according to the CEOs of the two...
Oct 13 2011 // Congress Wednesday approved long-delayed trade pacts with South Korea, Colombia and Panama that are expected to lift exports by about $13 billion a year and give U.S. employment a boost.Republicans and Democrats joined...
Oct 12 2011 // A.M. Best Co. has downgraded the financial strength rating to B- (Fair) from B (Fair) and issuer credit ratings to “bb-” from “bb” of Oklahoma Farm Bureau Group (Oklahoma Farm Bureau) and its...
Oct 12 2011 // Weather insurance provider WeatherBill has changed its name to The Climate Corporation and added former U.S. Sen. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota to its board of directors.The San Francisco-based company says the name change...
Oct 11 2011 // Farmers Insurance plans to hike homeowner premiums in Texas by nearly 10 percent next year.The increase will apply to about half of the Farmers Insurance customers across Texas, according to a report in The Dallas Morning...
Oct 11 2011 // Michael A Linton has been named enterprise chief marketing officer for Farmers Insurance.Linton, who most recently worked as executive vice president of marketing for Silicon Valley start-up, FreeMonee Network, has spent...
Oct 4 2011 // North Dakota farmers on average are older and more prosperous than they were a decade ago, and running bigger operations, a new study shows.The North Dakota State University study is based on the more than 500 farms of...
Oct 4 2011 // The deadline is approaching for rice farmers to submit claims in order to share in the settlement of a lawsuit against Bayer CropScience over genetically modified rice that was inadvertently introduced into the U.S....
Oct 3 2011 // Agriculture and manufacturing have spurred the South Dakota economy to moderate prosperity in the backwash of the national recession.Gains on the farm and in some factories have offset soft times in housing and the...
Sep 30 2011 // In addition to the $5.2 billion in agricultural losses as a result of the drought in Texas this year, an additional $150 million in losses can be attributed to wildfires, according to state agriculture experts.Dr. Andy...
Sep 30 2011 // The merger of insurer Nationwide Mutual with regional carrier Harleysville Mutual is all about growth, not only for the companies but also for their independent agents, according to the CEOs of the two...
Sep 27 2011 // The families of two young people who died after falling into a tank at a dairy farm in Michigan’s Barry County have filed wrongful death lawsuits against the farm. The lawsuits were filed last week in Barry County...
Sep 26 2011 // As the Missouri River slowly recedes, farmers seeing their fields for the first time since June are encountering sand dunes, strange debris and deep gouges the floodwaters carved into their once-fertile land.The soil...
Sep 26 2011 // Global reinsurer Swiss Re is introducing business interruption coverage in case of cholera outbreaks for women entrepreneurs in Haiti.Swiss Re, together with Mercy Corps and Fonkoze, the largest microfinance organization...