All the headlines from our Agribusiness Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 2 2011 // The Climate Corporation (formerly WeatherBill) have launched Total Weather Insurance (TWI) Corn 2012 and TWI Soybean 2012 which provide profit protection for growers against increasingly extreme weather.Total Weather...
Nov 2 2011 // “It’s about over, except for the shouting,” said Craighead County Extension Agent-Staff Chairman Branon Thiesse about the 2011 crops.“I don’t know how much shouting there will be, but there...
Oct 31 2011 // Farmers Insurance is advising Oklahoma residents that a new law, which goes into effect on Nov. 1, will have a significant effect on all drivers, especially those who drive without proper automobile insurance.The new...
Oct 31 2011 // The Virginia Farm Bureau is warning motorists to be mindful of deer wandering onto roads and highways, a common hazard during this time of year. The Farm Bureau should know. It says Virginia is among the top 10 states in...
Oct 31 2011 // Aon Benfield has published a highly detailed report on the ongoing floods in Thailand, from their meteorological beginnings – extremely heavy monsoon rains – to the widespread damage they have inflicted on one of East...
Oct 31 2011 // Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide announced that it has released the industry’s first Multiple Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI) Model for China. AIR said the “new model provides a fully probabilistic...
Oct 31 2011 // Xiang Junbo, the man named on Saturday to be China’s insurance regulator, recently led the country’s third-largest lender from near insolvency to a record IPO with assets worth more than India’s national...
Oct 28 2011 // The Cuomo administration is distributing an additional $850,000 in aid for more than 100 New York farms impacted by flooding caused by tropical storms Irene and Lee. Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday, Oct. 25, announced that...
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...